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posted by on Friday June 02 2017, @10:35PM   Printer-friendly
from the if-we-outlaw-robots... dept.

San Francisco is considering a ban on delivery robots, those cute little boxes on wheels that are being tried out in Washington by Starship Industries and now in San Francisco by Marble. A supervisor used the same words I have used on TreeHugger in Sidewalks are for people. Should we let the robots steal them? April Glaser writes in Recode:

"Our streets and our sidewalks are made for people, not robots," said Supervisor Yee in an interview with Recode. "This is consistent with how we operate in the city, where we don't allow bikes or skateboards on sidewalks."... Yee worries that the robots aren't safe, saying that seniors, people with disabilities and children won't be able move out of the way quickly enough as these machines roll down city sidewalks at walking speed.

Representatives for the robots had no comment.


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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday June 03 2017, @04:48AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Saturday June 03 2017, @04:48AM (#519734) Homepage Journal

    a rentacop tried to claim that the entire sidewalk, including the trees, was the property of the starbucks whose wifi I was stealing late that night.

    I refused to move. When the right chap threatened to call the cops I cheerfully said "I'll go peacefully".

    The cop didn't even address the rentacop's claim, but told me that one was permitted to sit or lie down on the two feet of sidewalk nearest the street.

    That only works if you have a one-man tent. It rains a lot in Portland.

    Happily for me I scouted out an awning of a shop that didn't pay for protection.

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