Armed with traffic cones, protesters are immobilizing driverless cars (www.npr.org)

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Self-driving cars have flooded San Francisco's streets, and not everyone is happy. Street activists have been using a low-tech solution to incapacitate the vehicles.

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[-] sab@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I couldn't help but note the lack of figures of how unsafe driverless cars are, versus a regular car, per distance driven. And for that matter - how much that number had changed over recent years - because that's the entire point of these tests, to make traffic safer.

And when scooter companies flooded the sidewalks with electric scooters, people threw them into San Francisco Bay.

Ah, that happened here as well. But we just call it vandalism.

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