In an article for The New York Times, Yiwen Lu describes how driverless vehicles are creating headaches for city workers and officials and, in some cases, putting residents in danger. “In San Francisco and Austin, Texas, where passengers can hail autonomous vehicles, the cars have slowed down emergency response times, caused accidents, increased congestion and added to the workloads of local officials, said police officers, firefighters and other city employees.”
In one example from San Francisco, two Waymo autonomous vehicles blocked an ambulance from leaving a scene after picking up a patient, delaying their arrival at the hospital by seven minutes that could have made a difference between life and death.
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