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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Josh Marcus

How a vote to empower autonomous ‘robotaxis’ from Cruise and Waymo has divided San Francisco

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The future was waiting outside my door, and it was an electric taxi named Saxophone.

On Wednesday, 9 August, on the eve of a much-watched vote to expand the footprint of autonomous vehicles (AV) in San Francisco, I summoned a driverless taxi from the company Cruise for a test drive.

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