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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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[–] Shayreelz@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not fully in either camp in this debate, but fwiw, the humans we let drive generally suffer consequences if there is an accident due to their own negligence

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 year ago

Also we do audit them, it's called a license. I know it's super easy to get one in the US but in other countries they can be quite stringent.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 year ago

And I'm not denying it. However, it takes a very high bar to get someone convicted of vehicular manslaughter and that usually requires evidence that the driver was grossly negligent.

If you can show that a computer can drive as well as a sober human, where is the gross negligence?