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- This certainly wasn't
a routine traffic stop.

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Police in San Francisco pulled over a car

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for not having its lights on.

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But it turns out, there was no one inside.

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It was a driverless
self-driving Cruise taxi.

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Once the officer confirmed

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there wasn't an actual driver involved,

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the taxi is seen making a run for it.

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But eventually, pulled
over a ways up the road.

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Cruise responded on Twitter by saying,

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"Our AV yielded to the police vehicle,

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then pulled over to the
nearest safe location

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for the traffic stop, as intended.

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An officer contacted Cruise personnel

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and no citation was issued."

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Cruise Taxi, a subsidiary
of General Motors,

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was approved to test-launch

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its driverless taxis late last year.

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While this isn't the first time

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a self-driving vehicle
has been pulled over

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for, shall we say, abnormal behavior,

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this does seem to be the first time

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that one's been pulled over

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without any driver or passenger inside.

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So I guess does this mean that we can

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just start blaming our car for things?

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Like, "Officer, it wasn't me that ran

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the red light, it was my car."

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