A peculiar incident happened in San Francisco, when the police stopped a car for driving at night without headlights on.
Officers then approached the vehicle and discovered that there was no driver inside the vehicle, as the puzzled officers circled the car and peered through the window.
A video of the incident was posted online, presumably taken by a passerby, who exclaimed in the video: “there’s no one in it, it’s crazy!”
Nothing paranormal about it
The company that owns the car, Cruise, responded that the vehicle was a self-driving car and it had “yielded to the police vehicle, then pulled over to the nearest safe location for the traffic stop, as intended.”
They added that “an officer contacted Cruise personnel and no citation was issued”.
Cruise said that the headlights of the self-driving car were turned off because of human error, and a spokesperson for the police said that a maintenance team had taken control of the car after the police had stopped it.
Cruise was founded in 2013 and has developed a program that allows cars to drive themselves.
Welcome to the future. Cop pulls over driverless car (because no lights?) Then Cruise goes on the lamb. (via https://t.co/mtmsIeOAUP) pic.twitter.com/ecQ5xXuSnS
— Seth Weintraub (@llsethj) April 10, 2022