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Just one day after state officials approved massive robotaxi expansion in San Francisco, a long line of the driverless cars come to a standstill and clog traffic in North Beach neighborhood.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

On the flipside, things like this and this won't happen with robot taxis.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sorry are you trying to describe a positive outcome

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm just pointing out that the "stopped taxis collectively fouling up traffic" is not unique to robotaxis, and that the human-driven taxis can be worse in that regard in some instances (one of the situations I linked went on for weeks, the one this article is about went on for fifteen minutes).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

But one of those stoppages is for the purpose of improving the lives of working class people, and in particular involves humans who can communicate with first responders. It's constructive. Those people's children won't live in poverty

The other is a side effect of a shoddy product, one which only operates because it corruptly evaded regulatory consequences for its shoddiness. The stoppage was only intended in the sense that cutting corners is the reason the product is on the market; otherwise it serves no specific purpose

It's true that the robotaxi fuck up is bad and the protest is less bad or good, but fundamentally they're not even the same type of thing

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