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Self-Driving Cars Are Being Attacked By Angry Californians (theguardian.com)
According to incident reports collected by the California department of motor vehicles, some Californians are purposely colliding with self-driving cars. The Guardian reports: On January 10, a pedestrian in San Francisco's Mission District ran across the street to confront a GM Cruise autonomous vehicle that was waiting for people to cross the road, according to an incident report filed by the car company. The pedestrian was "shouting," the report states, and "struck the left side of the Cruise AV's rear bumper and hatch with his entire body." No injuries occurred, but the car's left tail light was damaged. In a separate incident just a few blocks away on January 28, a taxi driver in San Francisco got out of his car, approached a GM Cruise autonomous vehicle and "slapped the front passenger window, causing a scratch." The police were not called in either case.
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They are not beating on it because it is self-driving. They are beating on it because it is a GM.
Fucking hippies. This is why we can't have nice things. Like robot overlords.....
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Why, is there some reason they can only turn clockwise?
I wonder if they used buggy whips on the offending cars...
Bite your tongue! Buggies are beautiful and gentle animals. Be grateful we are past the dark and savage era when someone could whip an innocent enslaved buggy with impunity!
You sir are a cad!
I mean, seriously biased. The title should be: Freedom Fighters from the Future Engage in Skirmishes with Machines to Push Back Judgement Date.
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They're just angry. Usually because they lack good economic prospects.
People that live in SF are not lacking in good economic prospects.
In Soviet California, pedestrian runs into you!
William George
This is simply a response to the failure to communicate. In CA as in many other places, it is customary for drivers and pedestrians to enjoy a lively communication. This typically involves vigorous hand, arm and facial body language as well as enthusiastic vocal invitations to do various things with various body parts.
In order to comply with this tradition, my wife and I would share this responsibility. Whichever was NOT driving the vehicle would yell at the assholes in other vehicles, and pedestrians who got out of the way, and apply the appropriate gestures. In this fashion, the driver was relieved of the duty and able to focus clearly on the next target down the road.
Self-driving cars are not yet sophisticated enough to participate in this essential communication, which causes understandable frustration.
...omphaloskepsis often...
Start a, new business: dummies for driverless cars to make them look like they are being driven by someone.
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