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San Francisco protestors are disabling autonomous vehicles using traffic cones | "It's a great time" (www.techspot.com)
submitted 3 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 34 points 3 years ago (15 children)

The interviewed protesters sound a little whacky. Maybe the cars are doing surveillance with the police, but that idea seems far fetched and unrealistic. Maybe I’m wrong.

I agree with more public transportation, bikes, and so forth, but I also agree with self driving cars. I dream of a future in which all cars are driven automatically without human drivers. Humans are very fallible and we all know, in almost every city, how many shitty drivers there are. Autonomous vehicles could fix this.

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  • [–] 30 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Maybe the cars are doing surveillance with the police, but that idea seems far fetched and unrealistic

    I'm sure that's what people said about Ring, or Facebook messages being used to arrest women for abortions. Why would a company turn down an extra revenue stream (or subpoena)?

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago

    Facebook messages being used to arrest women for abortions.

    That's a misrepresentation of what happened. The police already suspected her, and so they requested the information from Facebook. Facebook didn't voluntarily supply a bunch of data to the police for no reason, and then the police didn't comb through all the data to find this one crime that they otherwise didn't know about.

    What is being suggested with the automatic cars is that the police are actively monitoring the surveillance footage looking for criminal activity. They definitely won't be doing that. It's way to much like work.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago (11 children)

    Cars are incredibly inefficient at transporting people though, like you need a massive highway to transport the amount of people a train can transport, not to mention how much higher maintenance roads are compared to train tracks.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    Cars are incredibly inefficient at transporting groups of people long distances

    FTFY

    I'd love a legit train system to take me to locations across the state or country. But for running errands or local, day-to-day tasks, trains aren't the answer.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    Of course! For running errands and local, day-to-day tasks the bicycle is of course the best vehicle :)

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    I have taken the tram for whatever I need short distance so far, it's also free and goes from like behind my apartment to pretty much anywhere I would wanna go, including work. If I wanna visit my parents then yea, I take the train but I haven't needed a car in years.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Inefficient but versatile. Hardly anyone has the same schedule or needs.

    I wouldn't be able to do my job if I didn't have access to a personal vehicle, I have gear and tools I have to transport around town every day.

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