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On March 31, over a hundred of Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxis simultaneously froze on the streets of Wuhan.
Key facts
- In October 2023, a Cruise AV dragged a pedestrian 20 feet
- But Tony Han, founder and CEO of Chinese robotaxi startup WeRide, said at the Fortune Global Forum in Riyadh that AVs likely will never be 100% safe, but they would be 10 times safer than humans
- A major power outage knocked out traffic signals across San Francisco, leading to Waymo’s fleet of 800-1,000 robotaxis blocking roads and impeding emergency vehicles
- On March 31, over a hundred of Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxis simultaneously froze on the streets of Wuhan
Summary
A few weeks later, Beijing suspended all new autonomous driving permits nationwide. In the U.S., meanwhile, some autonomous vehicles are driving into street lights and even into the middle of ongoing crime scenes. During the June 2025 anti-ICE protests in downtown Los Angeles, demonstrators smashed, spray- painted, and torched at least six Waymo robotaxis. In February this year, a Waymo blew past cop cars at a live crime scene in Atlanta.