Robot taxi riders in San Francisco targeted with a new form of harassment

> A Waymo self-driving car stops while driving as people stand in the middle of the street to photograph the sunrise.

Please stop bullying the waymos

Scary. You can't just floor it and get out of there when someone threatens you. Same would apply for other imminent dangers like floods or fires. When the car decides to stop, there's nothing you can do except wait for it to change its mind or run away on foot.

On the other hand, we can hope that self-driving cars make streets safer for pedestrians and protesters by obeying speed limits, always watching the road, and never driving aggressively/threateningly even when antagonized.

> It’s so much safer, especially for a woman,” she said in a phone interview this month. “You’re not getting in the car with some strange man.”

Sorry, but this just doesn't paas the sniff test. Why do so many young people now assume that everyone in the world is out there to "get" them? How many of these conflicts can be resolved with a simple conversation? Young people decry the modern loneliness epidemic and come back with statements like this?

> But “at night, maybe I’m safer having someone else in the car just in case something happens.”

Oh?

Why not just the tint the windows?