San Francisco robotaxis cause traffic ‘fiasco’ day after expansion approved

Just one day after California regulators signed off on a controversial plan allowing San Francisco’s dueling robotaxi services to operate around the clock, a group of the autonomous vehicles ground traffic to a halt in one area of the city, sparking calls for the state to rethink its decision.

On Friday night, up to ten Cruise driverless taxis became paralyzed at the same time in San Francisco’s North Beach area, causing streets to back up as the vehicles blocked other cars in what the San Francisco Chronicle called a “fias