Safe Streets Rebel's protest comes after automatic vehicles were blamed for incidents including crashing into a bus and running over a dog. City officials in June said...
BOO! I love using the cruise cars. They have been the most careful with their implementation of the tech out of the companies I’ve seen in SF, only driving passengers at night and slowly increasing their covered area, and riding them is super fun. It’s crazy how Uber drivers and their supporters made fun of taxi drivers as luddites and people standing in the way of progress when they killed the taxi industry, then immediately complain and protest these companies.
It’s almost like Taxis cost more because they actually took care of their drivers, then Uber undercut by abusing drivers. Self-driving taxis are clearly the only real path forward for the industry.
Waymo was less enthusiastic about the practice. A spokesperson said that the cone protest reflects a lack of understanding of how autonomous vehicles work and is “vandalism and encourages unsafe and disrespectful behavior on our roadways.” Waymo says it will call the police on anyone caught interfering with its fleet of robotaxis.
You can tell the cops work for capital because Uber has made a fortune operating illegal taxis throughout the entire country and cops have never done a goddamn thing about it, but put one fucking cone on a car and Waymo feels confident the cops would use violence to stop it from happening again.
If Waymo gets its way, the roads are just going to be fully of buggy, barely-functioning autonomous cars, and every time they hit a pedestrian, the cops will arrest the pedestrian for being “disrespectful.”
IANAL or a resident of California, but I think you’re right. According to California Penal Code § 594 PC, vandalism is when a person either “Defaces with graffiti or other inscribed material”, “Damages”, or “Destroys” property, which doesn’t describe this act. I would think some sort of “mischief” is the most they could reasonably charge someone with. Maybe “public endangerment” but if you did this to a driver, they would just remove the object, so I think there’s an argument of who is causing that public endangerment.
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I propose we call this practice “unicorning”.
Agreed. Ladies, gents, and everyone else, make it so.
I am totally in favor of doing this for normal cars too considering how many people are killed every year.
BOO! I love using the cruise cars. They have been the most careful with their implementation of the tech out of the companies I’ve seen in SF, only driving passengers at night and slowly increasing their covered area, and riding them is super fun. It’s crazy how Uber drivers and their supporters made fun of taxi drivers as luddites and people standing in the way of progress when they killed the taxi industry, then immediately complain and protest these companies. It’s almost like Taxis cost more because they actually took care of their drivers, then Uber undercut by abusing drivers. Self-driving taxis are clearly the only real path forward for the industry.
The path forward is trains.
And bicycles.
Hell yeah we can even put the bicycles on the trains
So now instead of paying drivers peanuts they can just stop paying them entirely.
There are lots of good arguments against autonomous vehicles, but “they’ll eliminate low paying jobs” isn’t one of them.
Extremely based.
You can tell the cops work for capital because Uber has made a fortune operating illegal taxis throughout the entire country and cops have never done a goddamn thing about it, but put one fucking cone on a car and Waymo feels confident the cops would use violence to stop it from happening again.
If Waymo gets its way, the roads are just going to be fully of buggy, barely-functioning autonomous cars, and every time they hit a pedestrian, the cops will arrest the pedestrian for being “disrespectful.”
Idk, it’s a super effective and simple attack, that tells me they understand the tech pretty well.
Frankly if we got the same kind of revenge on human drivers there wouldn’t be a single working car left.
Good
!fuck_cars@lemmy.ml moment
“vandalism” is really stretching it.
IANAL or a resident of California, but I think you’re right. According to California Penal Code § 594 PC, vandalism is when a person either “Defaces with graffiti or other inscribed material”, “Damages”, or “Destroys” property, which doesn’t describe this act. I would think some sort of “mischief” is the most they could reasonably charge someone with. Maybe “public endangerment” but if you did this to a driver, they would just remove the object, so I think there’s an argument of who is causing that public endangerment.
Fucking idiots.
Why’s that? Seems like a moderately clever way to make their point and make some noise.
Enjoy your ban, smartsy pants.
Bruh
They were being highly aggressive, I simply reported them.
Fucking snowflake.
Man, that really doesn’t help your case
Chill
Ban? It’s a fair opinion