We love that the media is covering #weekOfCone, but they're mostly avoiding talking about one of the biggest problems: surveillance.

A self-driving car network is a city-wide surveillance network under corporate control (as summarized in the SF police department's own training materials!)

A world where cars are all replaced with surveillance robots is a world where everything you are doing is being watched. Where they watch you go from your home to a protest, or to get gender-affirming care, or to get an abortion. And because they're a private entity, who knows what (if any) restrictions there will be on what they do with that data.

Article (with linked SFPD document): https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7dw8x/san-francisco-police-are-using-driverless-cars-as-mobile-surveillance-cameras