A Center City Philadelphia woman was arrested after allegedly refusing to move out of the path of a delivery robot, a confrontation that was captured on video and has since drawn attention online.
We need more of this. Not, just because “they take our jobs” but because we need to normalize every day minor means of resistance to the tech dystopia we are in. Not because they are individual acts that will somehow change things. But, I’d be a proud parent if the way my kid gets in trouble is not from smoking cigarettes or something, but placing a traffic cone on top of a parked Waymo, I’m all for that.
We need more of this. Not, just because “they take our jobs” but because we need to normalize every day minor means of resistance to the tech dystopia we are in. Not because they are individual acts that will somehow change things. But, I’d be a proud parent if the way my kid gets in trouble is not from smoking cigarettes or something, but placing a traffic cone on top of a parked Waymo, I’m all for that.
You are right I need to buy some collapsible traffic cones.
I want to offer a bike valet at the local farmers market, but I could also use the cones for robotaxi shebang