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> Jaime Viloria of Equity on Public Transit, a grassroots group of riders in the Tenderloin neighborhood, says companies operating autonomous vehicles should be
by abeppu 4y ago
> Jaime Viloria of Equity on Public Transit, a grassroots group of riders in the Tenderloin neighborhood, says companies operating autonomous vehicles should be fined for causing delays.
Insufficient. They'll only count it as part of the cost of doing business.
I think every person director or above at these companies should be eligible to be delayed at random for a time equal to the total human-minutes of delay caused to transit riders and people in private vehicles. If a driverless vehicle blocks a train with 60 riders for 15 minutes, those directors and executives should in aggregate spend 15 hours not able to go wherever they want to go, and in a way which they are unable to schedule in advance.
- opportune 4y agoThey already have a system for this, it’s called “driving on the 101 during rush hour”
- abeppu 4y agoThe whole point of this article is that driverless vehicles are causing delays which are qualitatively different and longer than what human drivers would do. Pointing out that bad traffic already exists elsewhere (presumably caused by human drivers) does not decrease the problems that these companies are creating for the public, and certainly doesn't create accountability.
- tick_tock_tick 4y agoWe don't have consequences if a normal person blocks a train for 15 minutes why would we add them for automated cars first?
- abeppu 4y agoIf you stand in front of a muni train for 15 minutes, and refuse to speak to or respond to anyone, I think there's a decent chance you'll experience a negative consequence.
- thereisnospork 4y agoReplace 'refuse to speak' with 'scream incoherently' and that sounds like a normal occurrence in SF to me.