Cruise’s Emails With SF Police Ranged From Clubby to Contentious
The relationship cultivated between the autonomous driving company and the SFPD will be tested as Cruise works to build public trust and get its cars back on the road.
A Cruise vehicle in San Francisco
Photographer: David Paul Morris/BloombergHundreds of pages of emails between the driverless car company Cruise and the San Francisco Police Department show how contentious — and at times, collaborative — their relationship has been since the autonomous vehicle firm offered its robotaxi service to the public last year.
SFPD officials voiced some complaints. Cruise vehicles had driven through active crime scenes, disregarding caution tape, and had disrupted a motorcade escorting First Lady Jill Biden through town. Cruise, meanwhile, lamented that its cars were sometimes stopped by “curious cops” without any legitimate reason for doing so.