A reg lore agency approved expansion of the driverless car services in san francisco. hello. i can t hear you. i couldn t have predicted it any better. reporter: san francisco city leaders including fire chief jeanine nichols requesting more testing for the innovative but potentially dangerous technology. just days after california s public utility commission voted to allow cruise and waymo to roll out more cars at expanded times, a cruise car and a fire truck collided. 000 the state s dmv is investigating, and cruise has been ordered to reduce its fleet by half until further notice. it could cost someone their life. when an autonomous vehicle impacts our ability to respond to an emergency incident, it can impact someone s survivablity. reporter: data fro city
Caused by cars with no one in the driver s seat. there s like one, two, three, four cruise cars blocking. no one can get through. reporter: these driverless cabs stalled for half an hour outside the outside lands music festival. in the last two weeks, incidents involving autonomous vehicles have spiked after a regulatory agency approved gm s cruise and google s waymo to expand their driverless car services in san francisco. hello. i mean, i couldn t have predicted it any better. i don t think any of us could. reporter: san francisco city leaders including fire chief janine nickelson were outspoken about safety concerns, requesting more testing and regulations for the innovative but potentially dangerous technology. just days after california s public utility commission voted to allow cruise and waymo to roll out more cars in the city at expanded times, a cruise car
i mean, i couldn t have predicted it any better. i don t think any of us could. reporter: san francisco city leaders including fire chief jimmy nicholson were outspoken about safety concerns, requesting more testing and regulations for the innovative but potentially dangerous technology. just days after california s public utility commission voted to allow cruise to roll out more cars in the city at expand time, a cruise car and a fire truck collided. now the state s dmv is investigating and cruise has been ordered to reduce the fleet by half until further notice. it could cost someone their life. when it impacts our ability to respond to an emergency incident, it can impact someone s survivability. reporter: data from the national transportation safety board shows driverless cars have only resulted in minor injuries but city officials say that paints an incomplete picture because that data only shows