<story><title>San Francisco fire chief fed up with robotaxis that mess with her firetrucks</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-06-22/san-francisco-robotaxis-interfere-with-firetrucks-los-angeles-is-next</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rurp</author><text>The specific examples listed out in the article are egregious, causing real harm. The fire chief is right to be angry, if anything her response is too measured.&lt;p&gt;From the article:&lt;p&gt;- Running through yellow emergency tape and ignoring warning signs to enter a street strewn with storm-damaged electrical wires, then driving past emergency vehicles with some of those wires snarled around rooftop lidar sensors.&lt;p&gt;- Twice blocking firehouse driveways, requiring another firehouse to dispatch an ambulance to a medical emergency.&lt;p&gt;- Sitting motionless on a one-way street and forcing a firetruck to back up and take another route to a blazing building.&lt;p&gt;- Pulling up behind a firetruck that was flashing its emergency lights and parking there, interfering with firefighters unloading ladders.&lt;p&gt;- Entering an active fire scene, then parking with one of its tires on top of a fire hose.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Projectiboga</author><text>Time for Zero Tolerance, if one of these do it seize it, and levy the robotaxi company and whomever built it with Huge Fines. Not &amp;quot;oh that will just be another expense&amp;quot;, make it that those fines pierce the corporate veil and get to the executives and the millionaire shareholders. And now that I think of it, if there are any passengers, arrest them. That way they can sue the RoboTaxi company too.</text></comment>
<story><title>San Francisco fire chief fed up with robotaxis that mess with her firetrucks</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-06-22/san-francisco-robotaxis-interfere-with-firetrucks-los-angeles-is-next</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rurp</author><text>The specific examples listed out in the article are egregious, causing real harm. The fire chief is right to be angry, if anything her response is too measured.&lt;p&gt;From the article:&lt;p&gt;- Running through yellow emergency tape and ignoring warning signs to enter a street strewn with storm-damaged electrical wires, then driving past emergency vehicles with some of those wires snarled around rooftop lidar sensors.&lt;p&gt;- Twice blocking firehouse driveways, requiring another firehouse to dispatch an ambulance to a medical emergency.&lt;p&gt;- Sitting motionless on a one-way street and forcing a firetruck to back up and take another route to a blazing building.&lt;p&gt;- Pulling up behind a firetruck that was flashing its emergency lights and parking there, interfering with firefighters unloading ladders.&lt;p&gt;- Entering an active fire scene, then parking with one of its tires on top of a fire hose.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whartung</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s that scene from a TV show where the fire fighters are at a fire, and a car is in front of the fire hydrant. One of the characters calls out &amp;quot;Car!&amp;quot; and they then proceed to smash the windows, and route the fire hose through the car and connect it to the fire hydrant. Throughout the course of the incident, the hydrant leaks and fills the cars interior with water.&lt;p&gt;If only there was, perhaps, a similar effective, and cathartic response to these things.</text></comment>