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San Francisco protestors are disabling autonomous vehicles using traffic cones | "It's a great time" (www.techspot.com)
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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...

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[โ€“] pickle_party247@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

the real funny here is how the USA has the most lax driving test standards in the developed world resulting in crazy amounts of road traffic accidents and really high mortality rates, but instead of dealing with shitty driving at the source there's a billion dollar industry in autonomous driving.

[โ€“] Clown_Tempura@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Exploitation is the American way, bro. Create problems where there are none, offer a solution, profit.