Activists Protest Autonomous Vehicles in SF with Traffic Cone Disabling

Activists in San Francisco are placing traffic cones on the hoods of autonomous vehicles, such as Waymo and Cruise, to disable them and highlight concerns about the technology's readiness for public roads. The Safe Street Rebels argue that the city should not be a testing ground for these experimental vehicles. While the California Department of Motor Vehicles allows driverless cars, it referred inquiries about the incidents to local law enforcement. Cruise claims its driverless cars have traveled 3 million miles without any fatalities or life-threatening injuries, but experts note that they can still encounter rare situations that they haven't encountered before. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is concerned about the potential disruption caused by disabled autonomous vehicles.