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CTOnews.com, May 15 (Xinhua)-- self-driving cars are considered to be the saviors of transportation, but the reality is that San Francisco is troubled by the immaturity of self-driving technology.

Driverless cars from General Motors' Cruise and Google's Waymo are responsible for three of the city's 9 / 11 alarms every day after obtaining permission to provide taxi services in San Francisco in 2022, NBC New reported. The cars were overwhelmed and stopped completely when confronted with construction or emergency vehicles, causing traffic jams, the report said.

It was particularly troubled by the city's fire department and emergency workers, and a fire chief said she saw at least one accident related to self-driving vehicles every day. Other reports submitted by the fire department included self-driving vehicles driving towards the scene of the fire and crushing fire hoses. One report said firefighters had to break the window of one of the cars to stop it. The fire chief interviewed said she didn't think the cars were "ready for the road yet."

According to CTOnews.com, San Francisco does not have much jurisdiction over Google and GM because of special rules at the state level that make it impossible for San Francisco to regulate driverless cars. GM had no comment, while Mauricio Pena, chief safety officer of Waymo, said in an interview that their vehicles were "rare", but when it was pointed out that the city now receives three 9 / 11 calls a day for driverless cars, he said the "rare incidents" were "relative to the mileage we drive and the number of alerts we face every day." Pena also said it plans to increase the number of Waymo cars on the streets of San Francisco tenfold this summer. This upset Jeffrey Tumlin, the city's traffic director, who claimed that if Waymo goes according to plan, "it will have a huge impact on traffic jams, cause significant delays in our public transport system and affect the response time of emergency vehicles."

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