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.

To play devil’s advocate, how does this compare to an equivalent amount of human drivers? There are millions of cars on the road so statistically there are going to be a ton of accidents.