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- In scramble to protect workers against heat, California officials exclude prisons from new rules
- Editorial: The robotaxi revolution is here. L.A., other cities need to be able to regulate driverless cars
- Woman dies after going overboard on cruise ship returning to Florida
- Woman dead after bus crashes into pedestrians at Honolulu cruise ship terminal
- San Francisco’s fire chief is fed up with robotaxis that mess with her firetrucks. And L.A. is next
- dead after shuttle bus crashes at a Honolulu cruise ship terminal
- Passengers on Antarctic cruise ship hit by deadly 'rogue wave' speak out
- The House votes for possible TikTok ban in the U.S., but don’t expect the app to go away any time soon
The ship, Carnival Miracle, was on a 15-day journey, departing Long Beach, California, on April 6, according to Carnival Cruise Line. The 36-year-old was on the MSC Meraviglia, which was about 18 miles off of Port Canaveral, Florida when she fell into the sea, the Coast Guard told CBS News. For Concordia survivor Georgia Ananias, the COVID-19 infections are just the latest evidence that passenger safety still isn’t a top priority for the cruise ship industry. Passengers aboard the Concordia were largely left on their own to find life jackets and a functioning lifeboat after the captain steered the ship close too shore in a stunt.
In scramble to protect workers against heat, California officials exclude prisons from new rules
He then jumped into the drivers seat, trying to stop the vehicle, but he accidentally pressed the gas pedal instead of the brakes, colliding with two concrete barriers and eleven pedestrians, according to the Honolulu Police Department. Last month, the Coast Guard rescued a man who went overboard on the Carnival Valor. He treaded water for more than 15 hours and was near death when they rescued him about 20 miles south of Southwest Pass, Louisiana. "Our deepest sympathies go out to the family during this extremely difficult time and we ask for discretion as we notify the family of this tragedy," a spokesperson for the U.S.
Editorial: The robotaxi revolution is here. L.A., other cities need to be able to regulate driverless cars
The CEO of self-driving car firm Cruise resigned yesterday following an accident in which a Cruise robotaxi dragged a pedestrian 20 feet. California officials accused Cruise of withholding key information and video after the accident, and the company's self-driving operations are on hold while federal authorities investigate. “I imagine it like a nail stuck to the wall that marks that date, as a before and after,” he said, recounting how he joined the rescue effort that night, helping pull ashore the dazed, injured and freezing passengers from lifeboats. Virgin Voyages said the incident happened shortly after the cruise ship's departure.
Woman dies after going overboard on cruise ship returning to Florida
Tom Trusdale said he and another passenger were able to quickly pull the man back on the boat, but the woman's leg was severely injured. And the CDC did not say it would adopt any changes, adding it still had plans to allow for the expiration of a set of rules that cruises must follow to sail during the pandemic. The regulation, called a conditional sailing order, is scheduled to expire on Jan. 15 to become a voluntary program. “It was a night that, in addition to being a tragedy, had a beautiful side because the response of the people was a spontaneous gesture that was appreciated around the world,” Ortelli said. But after eight years in the U.S. and then Italian court system, they lost their case. The dinner plates that flew off the tables when the rocks first gashed the hull.
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A photographer for ABC affiliate WFTV was on the ship, which was returning from the Bahamas, and said emergency notifications were made over the ship's loudspeaker. The ship was held in the water and passenger and crew gathered on the deck, the station reports. Ortelli was later on hand when, in September 2013, the 115,000-ton, 1,000-foot long cruise ship was righted vertical off its seabed graveyard in an extraordinary feat of engineering. Prosecutors blamed the delayed evacuation order and conflicting instructions given by crew for the chaos that ensued as passengers scrambled to get off the ship. The captain, Francesco Schettino, is serving a 16-year prison sentence for manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning a ship before all the passengers and crew had evacuated.
San Francisco’s fire chief is fed up with robotaxis that mess with her firetrucks. And L.A. is next
The company also said it is working closely with local officials as an investigation gets underway into the circumstances surrounding the passenger's death. A Virgin Voyages cruise passenger died on board the ship Sunday night, after the guest "went over their balcony onto a lower deck," the company has confirmed. Daniel Miranda, another passenger, told the station that cruise officials said that they had “verified through the cameras” that a woman had fallen into the water. A photo he took, broadcast by the station, also showed that the area of the ship where the woman fell had been cordoned off with blue tape. The U.S. Coast Guard suspended a 31-hour search for a passenger who fell off a cruise ship near Mexico, the authorities said on Sunday.
One day after the C.D.C. advised against all travel on cruise ships, thousands of cruisers partied like it was 2019. But worries about onboard policies — and frustration over quarantines — are rising. The Trusdales were passengers on the Viking Polaris cruise ship sailing toward Ushuaia, Argentina, when it was hit by a "rogue wave" last week, killing an American passenger, Sheri Zhu, and injuring four others.
Passengers on Antarctic cruise ship hit by deadly 'rogue wave' speak out
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GM's Cruise may face fines for 'misleading' regulator over accident.
Posted: Mon, 04 Dec 2023 08:00:00 GMT [source]
“Following ongoing safety checks and technical assessments, given the weather conditions, we decided to amend the planned sailing route. Across the fleet, there are thorough operational protocols in place and we always prioritize the safety of those onboard,” HX said. Two civilian support vessels are aiding the ship in its journey to port, Danish rescue authorities said.
The House votes for possible TikTok ban in the U.S., but don’t expect the app to go away any time soon
The DMV said Cruise showed it the same abbreviated video, and only later did the agency see the full version. In pulling the permit, the California Department of Motor Vehicles cited safety concerns but also alleged that Cruise — owned by General Motors — misled the agency about basic facts. Tom Trusdale said he saw two passengers tossed into the air from what seemed to be an apparent explosion. Tom and Pam Trusdale were enjoying a bucket list trip to Antarctica, until their trip of a lifetime turned into a deadly disaster. "CDC acknowledges that it is not possible for cruising to be a zero-risk activity," CDC spokesperson Jasmine Reed said in an emailed statement.
The ship was in the North Sea at the time, in an area hit by a storm late Thursday with hurricane-force gusts forecast to continue Friday, the Danish Meteorological Institute said according to Reuters. The Cruise vehicle then moved "rightward before braking aggressively, but still made contact with the pedestrian," the company said. "The AV detected a collision, bringing the vehicle to a stop; then attempted to pull over to avoid causing further road safety issues, pulling the individual forward approximately 20 feet."
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating more cruise ships due to new COVID-19 cases aboard. A Carnival cruise ship passenger fell overboard into the Gulf of Mexico and was found alive against all odds on Thanksgiving Day — more than 15 hours after vanishing, officials said Friday. One passenger told a California news station, KABC-TV, that he heard someone say, “Man overboard, man overboard port side” on the ship’s speakers.
"Today I resigned from my position as CEO of Cruise," co-founder Kyle Vogt wrote in a post on twitter.com. "The startup I launched in my garage has given over 250,000 driverless rides across several cities, with each ride inspiring people with a small taste of the future," he also wrote. "There was an accidental steam release in an engineering space on board Nieuw Amsterdam, which sadly resulted in the death of two crew members," the cruise line said. "This wave hit it and came over and literally broke through windows and just washed into these rooms, and not only did it wash into the rooms, but it broke walls down, and once some walls went into the next room," Tom Trusdale said.
After the vote, a Cruise vehicle crashed into a firetruck, and the company’s vehicles began to act in bizarre ways, clustering together to block pedestrian and vehicle traffic at busy intersections for no apparent reason. All that preceded the robot-drags-human incident and Cruise’s questionable response. As robotaxi companies plan to provide service in Los Angeles, San Francisco officials battle with state regulators over robotaxi safety. Cruise called the crash tragic but said that the robotaxi stopped as it was supposed to and that a human driver couldn’t have reacted any faster.
