{"id":2057,"date":"2022-04-16T12:54:29","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T04:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/?p=2057"},"modified":"2022-04-16T14:04:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T06:04:09","slug":"heres-how-an-autonomous-vehicle-pulls-over-for-a-police-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/?p=2057","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s how an autonomous vehicle pulls over for a police car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>close <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/931\/524\/cruise.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"Hands-off with Cadillac's Super Cruise\" data-v-13907676=\"\"> Video<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"title\" data-v-13907676=\"\">Hands-off with Cadillac&#8217;s Super Cruise<\/h4>\n<p data-v-13907676=\"\">The 2021 Cadillac Escalade is available with the latest version of GM&#8217;s hands-free Super Cruise highway driving aid. Fox News Autos Editor Gary Gastelu lets it take him for a ride.<\/p>\n<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Where&#8217;s RoboCop when you need him?<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/640\/320\/cruise.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"A Cruise autonomous car fleet is being tested as a taxi service in San Francisco.\"><\/p>\n<p>A Cruise autonomous car fleet is being tested as a taxi service in San Francisco.<br \/>\n(Cruise)<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">A San Francisco police patrol was befuddled one night in early April when it pulled over a Chevrolet Bolt EV with its headlights off only to discover the driver&#8217;s seat was empty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ain&#8217;t nobody in it,&#8221; one officer can be heard on video of the incident shot by a bystander.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t an ordinary Bolt, however, but one of the fully autonomous taxis being tested in the city by General Motors-owned Cruise. The vehicles are equipped with an array of external sensors to enable self-driving capability within a geo-fenced area of San Francisco and can identify the lights and sounds of a police car attempting to pull it over.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/640\/320\/7c3ea497-cruise-3.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"The Cruise vehicles are Chevrolet Bolt EVs equipped with an array of sensors.\"><\/p>\n<p>The Cruise vehicles are Chevrolet Bolt EVs equipped with an array of sensors.<br \/>\n(Cruise)<\/p>\n<p>After pausing for a moment as the officer checks it out and walks away, the vehicle can then be seen driving away across an intersection and pulling over again with its hazard lights activated.<\/p>\n<p>GM CEO MARY BARRA TOOK A \u2018SURREAL\u2019 RIDE IN AN AUTONOMOUS CHEVY<\/p>\n<p>A Cruise spokeswoman told Fox News Autos the vehicle wasn&#8217;t going on the lam, but that it had alerted human Cruise personnel at a remote command center who saw that it had been subjected to a traffic stop and remotely directed it to pull over to a safer location when the officer moved out of the way.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cruise.gif\" alt=\"Cruise is allowed to operate its vehicles without a backup safety driver in San Francisco.\"><\/p>\n<p>Cruise is allowed to operate its vehicles without a backup safety driver in San Francisco.<br \/>\n(Cruise)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We work closely with the SFPD on how to interact with our vehicles and have a dedicated phone number for them to call in situations like this,&#8221; the spokeswoman added.<\/p>\n<p>After talking to Cruise, the police decided not to issue a citation and the vehicle was allowed to continue on its way.<\/p>\n<p>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/p>\n<p>As for why the headlights were off in the first place, it was due to human error and the issue has since been corrected, according to Cruise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>close Video Hands-off with Cadillac&#8217;s Super Cruise The 2021 Cadillac Escalade is available with the latest version of GM&#8217;s hands-free Super Cruise highway driving aid. 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