Members of Safe Street Rebel place a cone on a self-driving Cruise car in San Francisco.
"All right, looks good," one of them says after making sure no one is inside."Let's get out of here." They hop on e-bikes and pedal off. An anonymous activist group called Safe Street Rebel is responsible for this so-called coning incident and dozens of others over the past few months. They're mostly run by Cruise, which is owned by GM, and Waymo, which is owned by Google parent company Alphabet. Both companies haveinto developing these autonomous vehicles. Neither Cruise nor Waymo responded to questions about why the cars can be disabled by traffic cones.