If people steal them Cruise can file charges and consider it an expense of doing business.
1) I don't think it was in the way. A lane was open to the right lane but it waited 90s for a firetruck to move in the left lane before it continued on.
2) If I am paying for a ride in a Cruise and some random person hops in the front seat to "relocate" the car because it is inconviencing them - I will not be happy. Safety issue, etc.
3) We don't know if the patient would have died anyways. It was only a 90 second delay.
4) "after" in the title is being used as temporally after. There were a lot of things that happened before you could attribute to the cause of death - signaling out this one is sensationalist.
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.
I agree with you in general. I'm sorry you have to go through things like that.
You could be car jacked while riding in a taxi/lyft/uber/etc. It’s unclear why you think this any different.
In this situation of yours it sounds like anyone can just walk up to a AV and open the door and get in.