Driverless Taxis Blocked Ambulance in Fatal Accident, San Francisco Fire Dept. Says
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Two Cruise taxis delayed an ambulance carrying a car accident victim to a hospital, a department report said. The company said it was not at fault.

Driverless taxis blocked ambulance response to fatal accident, San Francisco Fire Dept. says::Two Cruise taxis delayed an ambulance carrying a car accident victim to a hospital, a department report said. The company said it was not at fault.

  • EdibleFriend@lemmy.worldEnglish
    73·
    1 year ago

    I am gonna guess you have some half baked action movie shit in your mind about just ramming it? And then the ambulance just…drives away?

    • A_A@lemmy.worldEnglish
      62·
      1 year ago

      if to save a life I would (no doubt) gently push that stupid car out of the way. Wouldn’t you ?

      • doublejay1999@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        1 year ago

        exactly.

        seems like everyone imagines im bruce willis, zooming down market street, swerving to avoiding gunfire, with some poor soul on stretcher being dragged behind the ambulance at 90mph .

        • A_A@lemmy.worldEnglish
          32·
          1 year ago

          I guess you and I know more about mechanics than the average person 👍

        • A_A@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          lol. You don’t know much about mechanics… do you ? And ambulance is a truck and it is heavy. You would be right if the vehicle to be pushed away was not so light. Anyway, you can feel it when you start to push how the vehicles reacts.

    • doublejay1999@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      1 year ago

      and I’m gonna guess you imagine me driving an ambulance at 50 miles per hour and send the robocabs skittling into a crowd, when the boring reality is that they could be safely push out of the way.

    • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      some half baked action movie shit in your mind

      I was thinking about the “japanese motorcycle repair kit” :-) (but only thinking, of course)