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Railways are a little different - for the most part (except at level crossings) they are operating on dedicated rights-of-way, and someone has to go out of thei
by nerdbert 3y ago
Railways are a little different - for the most part (except at level crossings) they are operating on dedicated rights-of-way, and someone has to go out of their way to interfere with them.
A car on a public street is mixing it up with everyone else, and the dividing line for what constitutes "messing with" them is not clear at all. What if I wear a shirt that confuses their algorithms? Shine a light that does it? Drive, bike, or walk in a pattern that does it?
- soligern 3y agoThis is not wearing a shirt though. This is people deliberately causing disruptions by putting a traffic cone, universally recognized as a traffic warning, in front of the vehicles. A lot of regular people would think twice about what to do if they came back to their parked car with traffic cones around it.
- albrewer 3y ago> universally recognized as a traffic warning Except a real driver can recognize when a cone should and shouldn't be there.
- mannykannot 3y ago> ...the dividing line for what constitutes "messing with" them is not clear at all. Putting cones out for no other purpose beyond stopping them moving seems to me unambiguously "messing with" them (though I don't think we need additional laws to address it.)
- PhasmaFelis 3y ago> someone has to go out of their way to interfere with them. How is this thing with the traffic cones not "going out of their way to interfere"? > the dividing line for what constitutes "messing with" them is not clear at all. If you're deliberately jamming up traffic by any means, it's perfectly clear which side of the line you're on.