Autonomous Cars Causing Chaos in Our Cities
Just a day after Waymo and Cruise won approval to expand paid driverless taxi services in San Francisco, a fleet of robotaxis froze and snarled traffic in a busy neighborhood. Days later, another autonomous vehicle got stuck in wet cement on a construction site, and yet another crashed into a fire truck.
The digital services we rely on daily are mostly held together by spit and duct tape. You that if you make software for a living. Consequently, autonomous vehicles will cause disruptions and accidents that will in turn lead to casualties. We can’t let self-serving cars on our streets unless they are regulated like banks and air travel to minimise the risk.
On a related note: What we need is fewer cars in our cities, not more. Specifically, we don’t need are cars that are driving around without passengers because robotaxi companies don’t want to pay for parking.