Driverless car appears to flee the scene after being pulled over by cops

A video showing a car being stopped by the police and then attempting to drive away went viral over the weekend. The Chevrolet Bolt EV was stopped by San Francisco police because its headlights were not on. An officer can be heard in the video saying there is no one in it.

A few seconds after the officer walks back to his car, the vehicle decides that the traffic stop was over and pulls over to a stop a few hundred feet away.

The car was not trying to make a run for it according to Cruise. The company says that the vehicle first yielded to the police vehicle, then pulled over to a safe spot for the actual traffic stop. A police officer contacted Cruise to inform them of the situation, and the car did not get a ticket. Cruise says it has fixed the problem that caused the car to drive without headlights.

This is not the first time that a car has been stopped by the police. In 2015, a self-driving car was stopped in Mountain View, California, for going just 24 mph in a 35 mph (56 km/h) zone. The officer decided that no law had been broken and no ticket was issued.

A police officer in Providence, Rhode Island, pulled over one of May Mobility's low-speed shuttles. On the first day of operations, one of the shuttles was stopped by an officer who was unfamiliar with the vehicle. No charges were brought about from that interaction.

The owner of a self-driving car was stopped in Florida after using the car's remote summon feature. The incident was staged by a YouTuber.

In case of emergencies, Cruise and other developers have prepared guides for first responders on how to interact with the vehicles.