The Brilliance of Disabling Self-Driving Cars With a Traffic Cone
slate.com
"Coning" autonomous vehicles is part of a long tradition of tactical urbanism.
  • Flying SquidEnglish
    0•1 year ago

    They have done things like block EMS from responding to a mass shooting. People keep making this about the safety of humans vs. autonomous cars, but humans generally don’t block ambulances. Even if they’re big asshole drivers.

    That makes these things a clear and present danger and they should not be on the streets.

    • gian English
      2•1 year ago

      For the record: the same article has an update (Wednesday June 14 2:10 p.m. EST) where the SFPD state that the car did not block any emergency services.

      • Flying SquidEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        Then I was wrong. I read it before the update and didn’t re-read when I posted (I didn’t think there would be a reason to).