Just one day after state officials approved massive robotaxi expansion in San Francisco, a long line of the driverless cars come to a standstill and clog traffic in North Beach neighborhood.
But one of those stoppages is for the purpose of improving the lives of working class people, and in particular involves humans who can communicate with first responders. It’s constructive. Those people’s children won’t live in poverty
The other is a side effect of a shoddy product, one which only operates because it corruptly evaded regulatory consequences for its shoddiness. The stoppage was only intended in the sense that cutting corners is the reason the product is on the market; otherwise it serves no specific purpose
It’s true that the robotaxi fuck up is bad and the protest is less bad or good, but fundamentally they’re not even the same type of thing
