San Francisco protestors are disabling autonomous vehicles using traffic cones

[theamk]

Note the same thing will work with regular cars, too: if someone places a cone on my car, I surely won't drive until I remove it.

The only difference is that human driver can get out of the car, examinine a situation, and remove the cone. So I guess this makes self-driving cars an equivalent of human disabled/handicapped drivers?

[willcipriano]

I probably won't get out to remove a random cone. Great way to get car jacked.

[alasarmas]

I believe that you are saying the important thing here is that the driver of the vehicle lacks the ability to remove the cone from the vehicle. However, this is not accurate. The driver of an autonomous vehicle is not an algorithm, nor a computer. It is a corporate entity such as Cruise, Waymo, or Omni Consumer Products :-)

This corporate entity does have the ability to remove a cone from the vehicle. It just lacks a convenient agent to remove the cone, because that would require an additional expenditure that breaks the business model of profitably selling taxi rides without human taxi drivers.

It is not a crime to break a business model. Never has been, and with any luck, never will be.

[mutant_glofish]

The first sparks of the Butlerian Jihad [1]?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(franchise)#The_Butlerian...

[jrpt]

There’s a big difference between protest and vandalism. They are just Luddites.

Waymo’s safety record (desktop only): https://docalysis.com/files/hldxxn

[kranke155]

What about the implication these cars are sharing video with the police? That’s quite damning.

[x86x87]

they're gonna have and even better safety record with those cones on them!

[housemusicfan]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36624172