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The Self-Driving Cars Wearing a Cone of Shame
(slate.com)
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this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023
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It’s an imaginative way to protest, but what exactly are they protestors opposing about self driving vehicles? I get there might be safety concerns about this new and somewhat unproven technology, but it’s not as if human drivers are wholly reliable either.
Ultimately self driving tech has to “hit the streets” at some point to get real world testing experience and feedback.
They're not protesting self driving cars. And this has nothing at all to do with the reliability of human drivers. They're protesting the way the development and testing of self driving cars has put corporate interests ahead of civic safety and community consent. The people in these test cities have become non-consenting test subjects in an experiment that clearly puts corporate profit ahead of safety. When new drugs "hit the streets" there are well regulated systems of test subject consent and safety accountability to get real world testing experience and feedback. Why should this auto industry experiment be exempt from experimental and scientific ethics?
I can't find any source from the group claiming they want safer self driving cars instead they seem to protest cars and self driving cars. Where did you read that?
I read the article. The group behind the protests said, “It’s like the state has decided that these things are going to be deployed in San Francisco without the consent of the city or the people in it.”