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San Francisco protestors are disabling autonomous vehicles using traffic cones
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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...

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I'm not fully in either camp in this debate, but fwiw, the humans we let drive generally suffer consequences if there is an accident due to their own negligence

Also we do audit them, it's called a license. I know it's super easy to get one in the US but in other countries they can be quite stringent.

And I'm not denying it. However, it takes a very high bar to get someone convicted of vehicular manslaughter and that usually requires evidence that the driver was grossly negligent.

If you can show that a computer can drive as well as a sober human, where is the gross negligence?