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San Francisco fire chief cites staffing moves, video outreach and limited progress engaging autonomous‑vehicle companies

San Francisco Fire Commission · July 12, 2023
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Summary

Chief Janine Nicholson told the Fire Commission the department is expanding public-information staffing and recruiting tools, planning video outreach for recruitment, and has seen little substantive engineering or policy engagement from autonomous‑vehicle firms despite repeated outreach.

Chief Janine Nicholson, the San Francisco fire chief, told the Fire Commission that the department is stepping up recruitment and public‑information work while continuing outreach to companies that operate autonomous vehicles in the city. "No real progress has been made with Cruise, or other companies in terms of sitting down with us with their engineering and policy people to meet with…

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