{"id":397445,"date":"2026-07-14T03:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/397445\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T03:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:06:14","slug":"san-francisco-may-soon-fine-autonomous-vehicle-companies-for-impeding-emergency-response-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/397445\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco may soon fine autonomous vehicle companies for impeding emergency response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/19484528_071026-kgo-cruise-firefighters-img-Wi7AHq-300x169.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-1204891\" alt=\"\"   loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">VIDEO: San Francisco first responders are raising concerns about autonomous vehicles blocking emergency routes and delaying response times, prompting city leaders to explore additional accountability measures for self-driving car companies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The concerns come three years after the California Public Utilities Commission allowed Waymo and Cruise to expand self-driving vehicle operations in San Francisco. Since then, hundreds of autonomous vehicles have become part of daily life in the city, but firefighters say they have also created challenges during some emergency responses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnytime we are blocked by any autonomous vehicle that matters, and we don\u2019t want that to continue to happen,\u201d said Mariano Elias of the San Francisco Fire Department. The department has been documenting incidents involving autonomous vehicles for years, according to Elias.<\/p>\n<p>KGO-TV ABC 7 San Francisco<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VIDEO: San Francisco first responders are raising concerns about autonomous vehicles blocking emergency routes and delaying response times,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[974,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-397445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-national","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}