San Francisco protestors are disabling autonomous vehicles using traffic cones | "It's a great time"

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San Francisco protestors are disabling autonomous vehicles using traffic cones | "It's a great time" - LemmyWorld

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…

City officials in June said there have been ninety incidents involving Alphabet’s Waymo and General Motors’ Cruise vehicles since January.

Compared to how many traffic incidents involving human-operated vehicles? Because if that number is greater than 90, the AVs are the safer choice.

Automated cars don’t have to be perfect; they just have to be better than people.

The comparison needs to be normalized for distance driven. There’s far more human driven cars. But most humans don’t spend that long driving (I’m not sure how much of the day is spent driving by these AI cars, but they theoretically could drive all day long).

The quota also does say “involving”, which may include accidents where someone else hits an AI driven car. If so, that’s highly misleading.