Fighting back against the robot
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Skynet wept - for a little while.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/07/san-francisco-autonomous-cars-protest-cone
A group of San Francisco organizers are encouraging people to put traffic cones on the hoods of driverless vehicles as a form of protest against the cars’ expansion on city streets.
A video of the group’s actions with step-by-step instructions on how to disable a robo-taxi with a cone has gone viral on Twitter and sparked intense debates about the pros and cons of autonomous vehicles and the value of protesting in this way.
Safe Street Rebel, a group of organizers that advocate for pedestrian safety and reducing the number of cars on roads, are behind this stunt. They hope that it will raise the public’s awareness of the potential dangers driverless taxis pose before a pivotal vote by the California public utilities commission set to take place on 13 July.
The vote would allow Cruise, a company controlled by the automaker General Motors, and Waymo, a Google spinoff, to charge people for rides as a part of the state’s driverless autonomous vehicles passenger service deployment program, according to the meeting agenda.
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Seems pretty goofy to me. If human drivers were all super good, okay, then I can understand. But there are some real real bad human drivers out there, and I am not convinced that the robot drivers are any worse. LOL
