San Francisco protestors are disabling autonomous vehicles using traffic cones
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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...

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…

  • moss@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I live in the area and the streets are just clogged with these fucking autonomous cars. Traffic is slower, people end up having to swerve, it’s just a constant persistent headache. If I had it my way, they’d all be off the streets and into the crusher

      • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Public transit is better, but self-driving taxis are absolutely coming to every city in this country, which is great if you live in a city like mine that has little to no public transport infrastructure.

        Also, automated taxis can service more rural areas, which is the key driver of lack of public transport in many “commuter cities.”

        Luddites gonna Luddite, but this tech is coming, and it’s coming to logistics and taxis first.

      • howrar@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Can we instead have self driving buses?

        I’m envisioning a system where you tell it your location and where you want to go, then it automatically sets up a route for the bus that coincides with where most people want to go and tells you to get off when it’s near your destination. This can work in conjunction with self driving taxis if no one else is going to your destination.

        • GladiusB@lemmy.worldEnglish
          01·
          1 year ago

          The problem is no one will use them. Busses are full of homeless people and people that NEED to use them than they want to. I was a bus driver for many years. They don’t stop where everyone wants to go and it’s a necessity to most instead of an integrated way of life. The entire American culture would need to change.