This is a really interesting question that deserves to be taken seriously. If you were a self-driving car company that wanted to maximize market share, what laws would you want to see, and how would they harm pedestrians, cyclists, or others? https://sfba.social/@SafeStreetRebel/110691492665636982
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Remember how jaywalking was invented by car companies to avoid having to address their safety problems? Public space was taken away from pedestrians and reserved for corporate interests by the law. There's already talk of how laws that protect pedestrians are inconvenient for self-driving cars. Recently, gig companies like Uber and Lyft spent tens of millions of dollars to push through laws that allow them to better exploit workers. What new laws are self-driving car companies going to introduce? What do you take for granted today that will be criminalized tomorrow?

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@meelar At some point, they're going to try to make it illegal to touch a car which isn't yours. I suspect that if you polled drivers, a majority would agree with the idea that someone touching their car while they're driving should legally be considered "assault."