Are Californians Really Physically Attacking Autonomous Cars?
According to our friends at 'The Guardian', people in California are hitting back at their new robot neighbors – truly – as reports detail attacks on autonomous cars . The biggest guarantee of self-driving autos is that they will spare many lives by expelling the most error prone and eccentric component from vehicle movement: the human. Yet, in San Francisco, there is actual rage against the machine. Two of the six collisions involving autonomous cars in California so far this year involved humans colliding their cars into self-driving cars, obviously intentionally, as indicated by incident reports collected by the California department of motor vehicles. On January 10 th , a person in the San Francisco’s Mission District attacked a GM Cruise autonomous vehicle that was at a standstill waiting for people to cross the street, according to an incident report filed by the car company. The person was “shouting”, the report states, and “struck the left side of the C