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It’s an imaginative way to protest, but what exactly are they protestors opposing about self driving vehicles? I get there might be safety concerns about this new and somewhat unproven technology, but it’s not as if human drivers are wholly reliable either.
Ultimately self driving tech has to “hit the streets” at some point to get real world testing experience and feedback.
I'd probably kind of oppose to them on the grounds that I'd rather that money go into investing in pedestrian infrastructure, and not just yet another car to hog up the streets.
It might in the end. For example the end goal of Uber was self driving car development that would eventually replace all of the drivers, creating a network of inexpensive self driving taxis and shared rides reducing the amount of individual cars on the roads and especially basically completely remove the need for parking, as the car is always in use by someone.