
2025-05-31 00:25:49
"The rollout of driverless vehicles must not be an excuse to further diminish the role of the pedestrian in urban life."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/12/driverless-cars-pedestrians-second-class…
Prediction for today from 2016:
"The United Kingdom is now the region’s foremost knowledge-based economy. We lead the world in biotech, law, education, the audio-visual sector, financial services and software. New industries, from 3D printing to driverless cars, have sprung up around the country."
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Waymo applied for a NYC permit to test its cars with safety drivers and plans to start collecting mapping data with manually driven cars in Manhattan in July (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/689093/waymo-nyc-permit…
«So even though driverless cars nominally have nothing to do with law enforcement, police are treating them as though they are their own roving surveillance cameras.».
And by extension, protestors and other people start to view them as the state surveillance tools they are.
https://www.404media.co/waymo-pauses-service-in-downtown-la-neighborhood-where-theyre-getting-lit-on-fire/