This is your city on driverless cars.

A blackout in San Francisco yesterday cut power to traffic lights. Drivers coped; Waymos just stopped moving, often in intersections, stranding passengers and compounding gridlock.

https://sfstandard.com/2025/12/20/waymo-sf-blackout-robotaxi-traffic-jams/

Maybe allowing a private company to flood public space with a massive fleet of unmanned vehicles isn't great transportation policy. (Especially when shit happens. And shit *always* happens.)
On the other hand, we could just let the "disruptors" do exactly what they want. That usually works out fine.

The fact that driverless cars kill + injure fewer people than conventional cars is a genuine plus.

It doesn't outweigh minus of private companies flooding public streets with constantly cruising vehicles that periodically cause gridlock, chaos.

Here's one Waymo messing up dozens of people's day.

There should be zero tolerance for interfering with public transport like this. Any sane community would recognize this as indefensible.

@straphanger

After 10 minutes just make it legal for anybody to damage the car in any way they want.