SF Fire Dept.: Person Dies After Cruise Robotaxi Blocked Ambulance

Re:SF Fire Dept.: Person Dies After Cruise Robotaxi Blocked ... by flandish on Sunday September 03, 2023 @02:00PM (#37372581)

1) it took 90s to prepare for transport before being able to move. This is fast but also standard.

2) If you are in the car, and I as a firefighter enter, I am going to announce that and your opinion doesn’t matter. I am moving it for safetys sake. I will be safe, kind, and take your safety into consideration. But that you will be late to work does not enter.

3+4) I have extricated patients, in massive accidents, alive when I package them on the stretcher, and then only hear they died later. It fucking sucks. Was it me not getting that roof popped, or door opened fast enough? Was it the amb? Traffic? Was it the taxi who refused to move?

It sticks with you. It’s a hard part of the job.

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Re:SF Fire Dept.: Person Dies After Cruise Robotaxi Blocked ... by pests on Sunday September 03, 2023 @08:53PM (#37376120)

2) I agree with you but normally a car is locked from the inside and random people (firefighter or not) shouldn't be able to just open it via the usual methods. Police still have to bust out windows to extract people all the time. They don't get a special unlock button.

I agree with you in general. I'm sorry you have to go through things like that.

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Re:SF Fire Dept.: Person Dies After Cruise Robotaxi Blocked ... by flandish on Sunday September 03, 2023 @10:43PM (#37376639)

Yes but a key assigned to apparatus like fire will fix that concern. We already have keys to buildings in the trucks, basically. This is no different.

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