Many of the supposed minor incidents aren't even real. Two recent examples that got a lot of attention were the mass shooting incident where a Cruise allegedly

Many of the supposed minor incidents aren't even real. Two recent examples that got a lot of attention were the mass shooting incident where a Cruise allegedly blocked first responders to a mass shooting (it didn't, the police later clarified), and a Waymo that supposedly blocked a bus and forced passengers to disembark (it was the other way around, the bus broke down and blocked the AV). Also, SF officials got caught misrepresenting safety numbers, and were called out by the state. At this point I'm very skeptical of issues that get attention. There definitely have been legitimate problems, but it seems like they're rare enough that people would tolerate them, thus fake incidents need to be created. This cone thing also might backfire because now even when there's a real incapacitated AV people will speculate it was due to external mischief.