Cruise cars drive like a drunk grandma stopping short all over the place and regularly failing to take a protected turn at a green turn light because some pedestrian has a foot edging into a crosswalk.

The biggest safety issue associated with these cars is that everyone else honks and swerves aggressively to evade them when they stop short for dumb reasons like someone in the road waiting in front of their car for traffic to pass so they can get into their car —- these are actions I witness multiple times every day and if you look at every accident report associated with these cars you’ll see almost every case seems like a driver frustrated about being stuck behind it trying to swerve around it.

What isn’t recorded is all the accidents involving the cruise cars that don’t actually impact the cruise car. Like when someone swerving around a cruise car side swiped my neighbors car on Fulton. I almost saw a biker on 14th street by Valencia get hit in a similar manner when someone trying to evade the cruise car in the left lane swerved quickly into the right lane while the biker was avoiding a car in the right lane trying to turn right onto Valencia.

They almost certainly don’t collect statistics on accidents caused by other drivers who just want to get around these cars that clearly don’t need to be tested in a way that makes everyone’s commute just a little bit more obnoxious.