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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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[–] rambaroo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Uh, because software can be fixed and those deaths can be prevented? How the hell can you ask this question seriously? I can't believe how many people are willing to blatantly shill for these companies, even if it gets people fucking killed.

And no you can't claim to be saving lives because these driverless cars very often kill people in situations that a human driver would easily navigate.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 year ago

And until the system is perfect, let people die on the worse system?

This isn't me shilling for a company, this is me comparing two flawed systems.