Well then expecting cyclists to not destroy your vehicles is too much as well…

Beyond the absurdity autonomous cars only following selected rules of the road, doesn't London have pretty good public transit?! Like, among the best in the world for a big city. Why in the fucking world would Waymo operate there unless it wants to compete public transit and bikes.

If they stop in a bike lane there is some error in the software.
You can fix that by hitting that big black reset button on the roof with a sledge hammer

Given that there's no one driving the car, there little disincentive to smash a tail light or window of one of these things pull in front of you.

You can also disable them nonviolently.

Well they can expect people to casey neistat their taxi .

Is it illegal to stop in a bike lane in London? A quick search suggests it is in fact legal. That sucks, they should change that. It's illegal to drive a car in a protected bike lane in CA, and Waymo follows the law. When it's not a protected bike like, they put their stupid huge SUV into the lane and sit for as long as legally allowable and it sucks.

Expecting a Molotov cocktail to respect a driverless taxi is also "too high a bar"

This is like saying they can't be expected to avoid pedestrians using crosswalks. Customers are expecting the car to drive through the crosswalk when there's no one is crossing...so how are they expected to avoid hitting people who are crossing the street?

Oh, but letting AI take over the world is a very justifiable and achievable goal that will have no negative effects I am sure.

We tried training our AI on real-world bike-lane-respecting telemetry, but there just wasn't enough data!

Simple solution, just burn them down because that's what people 'expect' you to do with them.

To be fair to self driving companies, regular drivers seem to have trouble with this task as well.