<story><title>Grumpy Locals Are Sabotaging Cruise and Waymo Robotaxis with Traffic Cones</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/news/rebels-are-disabling-waymo-cruise-robotaxis-with-traffic-cones</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abracadaniel</author><text>I do wonder why they aren’t all stripped for motors and battery cells though. There should be a bit of incentive for that. Maybe they’re sufficiently difficult to get to without expensive tools?</text></item><item><author>gretch</author><text>It turns out that it takes a lot of energy to hate&amp;#x2F;antagonize random stuff going on - you don&amp;#x27;t get paid and there&amp;#x27;s no benefit to you. Eventually you just get too busy living your actual life to continue the feud.&lt;p&gt;Real protests are fueled by real pain, and those don&amp;#x27;t just peter out because there&amp;#x27;s refueling every day, not just flavor-of-the-month outrage.&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, the entities pushing these advances won&amp;#x27;t run out of gas because they are making money from real customers who find their service valuable (citation needed admittedly).&lt;p&gt;Time will tell which of these scenarios it is, but my bet is that people will find these very useful 5 years from now and the rough edges will be sanded down by technological improvement.</text></item><item><author>yazaddaruvala</author><text>Reminds me of when the first scooters and bikes were deployed across Seattle.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Oh this is the worst! people leave them in the middle of the sidewalk&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;They are just gonna get stolen and stripped for parts&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Everyone please, actively break them, throw them into ditches, or into the water.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;X years later, people in Seattle love them - they are constantly in use. Less traffic on the streets, fewer drunk people driving. The homeless have a few stolen ones but actually use them practically (so good for them). And people have learned to park them half-decently.&lt;p&gt;This will be the same story for AVs. The tech is gonna improve faster than the complaints get filled, and very soon everyone is gonna love paying 80% less for their Ubers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>olyjohn</author><text>Who are they gonna sell the motors and battery cells to? The only people interested in them would be a few hobbyists doing some DIY stuff. Not like you can just bolt it into your Honda Civic or run them in your laptop. Maybe once the true Civic of EVs comes out, you&amp;#x27;ll start to see them getting stripped for parts.</text></comment>
<story><title>Grumpy Locals Are Sabotaging Cruise and Waymo Robotaxis with Traffic Cones</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/news/rebels-are-disabling-waymo-cruise-robotaxis-with-traffic-cones</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abracadaniel</author><text>I do wonder why they aren’t all stripped for motors and battery cells though. There should be a bit of incentive for that. Maybe they’re sufficiently difficult to get to without expensive tools?</text></item><item><author>gretch</author><text>It turns out that it takes a lot of energy to hate&amp;#x2F;antagonize random stuff going on - you don&amp;#x27;t get paid and there&amp;#x27;s no benefit to you. Eventually you just get too busy living your actual life to continue the feud.&lt;p&gt;Real protests are fueled by real pain, and those don&amp;#x27;t just peter out because there&amp;#x27;s refueling every day, not just flavor-of-the-month outrage.&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, the entities pushing these advances won&amp;#x27;t run out of gas because they are making money from real customers who find their service valuable (citation needed admittedly).&lt;p&gt;Time will tell which of these scenarios it is, but my bet is that people will find these very useful 5 years from now and the rough edges will be sanded down by technological improvement.</text></item><item><author>yazaddaruvala</author><text>Reminds me of when the first scooters and bikes were deployed across Seattle.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Oh this is the worst! people leave them in the middle of the sidewalk&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;They are just gonna get stolen and stripped for parts&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Everyone please, actively break them, throw them into ditches, or into the water.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;X years later, people in Seattle love them - they are constantly in use. Less traffic on the streets, fewer drunk people driving. The homeless have a few stolen ones but actually use them practically (so good for them). And people have learned to park them half-decently.&lt;p&gt;This will be the same story for AVs. The tech is gonna improve faster than the complaints get filled, and very soon everyone is gonna love paying 80% less for their Ubers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>A thief would prefer to strip cars without cameras.</text></comment>