Activists disable SF autonomous vehicles by placing traffic cones on hoods to prove point

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As sophisticated as driverless cars are, a group called the Safe Street Rebels simply place traffic cones on their hoods and it stops them cold. See why they're doing this.

"They're unreliable and we're more trying to demonstrate something, you know, as a city and as city residents we don't consent to this. We don't consent to having our city of 800,000 people be considered as human guinea pigs," said ‘Cone’, a Safe Street Rebel. Cruise says the cone videos come from a local group that opposes cars generally in favor of transit and bikes.

Autonomous car expert, Billy Riggs, professor of transportation innovation at University of San Francisco, says data does show driverless cars generally performing better than human drivers with this provision: "We still see issues where, just like a human driver, they encounter situations, one in a million situations that they haven't encountered before," said Professor Riggs.

 

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