https://www.recode.net/2017/10/3/16413068/testing-self-driving-cars-san-francisco-challenging-necessary

A version of this essay originally appeared on Medium.

Anyone who has visited San Francisco knows that driving here is kind of ridiculous. Our Cruise autonomous vehicles encounter challenging (and often absurd) situations up to 46 times more often than other places self-driving cars are tested. Perhaps for this reason, nobody else is regularly testing self-driving cars in SF. And while we’re generally drawn to tough problems, we test in SF only because we have to. We believe it’s the fastest path toward deploying self-driving cars at scale.