[burkaman]

> On Friday night, as many as 10 Cruise driverless cars stopped working near a music festival in San Francisco’s North Beach, causing traffic to back up, according to The San Francisco Chronicle, which reported that the company had blamed “wireless connectivity issues.”

They just stop if they lose service?

[soco]

It's definitely safer than going on blind. Wet concrete might be the least bad situation.

[dmazin]

I mean, that's a good failsafe.

[alistairSH]

And if they lose connection on a foggy morning on a busy street and cause a pile up?

I agree that "stopping" should happen. But, they need to stop safely (pulled onto the shoulder/parking lane/low volume side road), not just abruptly stop in the middle of the street, blocking the rest of the traffic.[1]

1 - https://www.wsmv.com/2023/08/15/driverless-cars-stall-causin...

[burkaman]

It's a good failsafe if there's a human driver there to take over. I don't think they should be on the road unsupervised if they can't operate without connectivity.

[stronglikedan]

At a bare minimum, the onboard systems should know how to "pull over" like a human driver would if their vehicle was malfunctioning.