Self-driving cars have flooded San Francisco’s streets, and not everyone is happy. Street activists have been using a low-tech solution to incapacitate the vehicles.

    • GigglyBobble@kbin.social
      154·
      10 months ago

      Not sure what they’re trying to show though.

      You also can render a human driven car immobile but standing in front of it and have a buddy come up from behind. And what does that prove other than you’re asshole? I don’t see how this activism is different.

      • stopthatgirl7@kbin.socialOP
        144·
        10 months ago

        Please check the date on the article.

        Last I checked, “August 26, 2023” was not two months ago.

        If you’d like to accuse NPR of being slow, go for it.

          • stopthatgirl7@kbin.socialOP
            162·
            10 months ago

            Because this is not old news, if I’m posting an article that came out TWO DAYS AGO.

            Anyway, you have a nice day.

            • Foggyfroggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
              517·
              10 months ago

              Yes it is. Google “traffic cones stop autonomous cars” and look at the 30 “articles” that pop up including npr recycling the same story multiple times.

  • sab@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    10 months ago

    I couldn’t help but note the lack of figures of how unsafe driverless cars are, versus a regular car, per distance driven. And for that matter - how much that number had changed over recent years - because that’s the entire point of these tests, to make traffic safer.

    And when scooter companies flooded the sidewalks with electric scooters, people threw them into San Francisco Bay.

    Ah, that happened here as well. But we just call it vandalism.

  • fubo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    212·
    10 months ago

    Didn’t this turn out to actually be a member of SF city government and his political staff?

    • stopthatgirl7@kbin.socialOP
      184·
      10 months ago

      We have very different ideas of “old news,” and feel free to block me if you don’t like what I post instead of complaining on two different posts.

      • Foggyfroggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        520·
        10 months ago

        This has been posted so many times, I see it at least once per week. Maybe you’re just new

        • stopthatgirl7@kbin.socialOP
          74·
          10 months ago

          Check the date on the article.

          And “new.” Oh, that’s funny. Please, check my posting history to see how “just new” I am here.

          • angrystego@kbin.social
            72·
            10 months ago

            The date on the article means nothing, because the information had been published before in other news sources. This article just republished old news with a new date.
            I feel with you though, you didn’t know that.