Why many in San Francisco are pushing back against state regulators looking to expand the city’s contract with two driverless car providers
all sent letters to the commission expressing their concerns over interactions between autonomous vehicles and emergency services, the San FranciscoThe city’s Director of Transportation, Jeffrey Tumlin, called the robotaxi expansion a “race to the bottom,” telling thethat Cruise and Waymo cars have only “met the requirements for a learner’s permit.” In many instances, stalled vehicles have required the intervention of company employees to move the vehicles.
Activists in the city have been pushing back against the cars in a novel way. One group, known as Safe Street Rebel, discovered the cars could be disabled by placing a traffic cone on a vehicle’s hood, and began encouraging others to do so to protest the expansion. The group says the cars block traffic flow and pose a surveillance threat as policevideo footage captured by the taxis’ cameras on robotaxis as evidence to help solve crimes.
“Cruise & Waymo promise they’ll reduce traffic & collisions, but we know that’s not true,” the group wrote onlast week. “They block busses & emergency vehicles, create more traffic, and are a surveillance nightmare.” “And more importantly, they require streets that were designed for cars, not people or transit,” they said in a
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