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That is the crime she was arrested for? Not yielding to a clanker using the sidewalk? Wow, what a joke.
Say it with me everyone: police exist to protect capital.
The police arrest protesters for refusing to move on all the time.
You can fight it in court
You can't stand on a sidewalk? That's criminal mischief? This level of bullshit should make everyone's blood boil.
You can’t intentionally impede someone/something’s progress repeatedly, I think is the point. She’s welcome to stand off to the side and protest all she wants, but not deliberately and continually preventing the robot from moving.
If she didn’t like buses and just stood in the bus lane one day and blocked traffic, she’d be arrested just the same.
That's nowhere comparable. A sidewalk is ostensibly an area for pedestrians to be, whether in movement or stationary. It is not a road, and definitely not a robot road. If the robot is too stupid to navigate someone standing in an area designed for people to stand, that's not the person's fault.
You want a comparable situation? This is like you sitting on a public bench in a park, then I come up to you and demand you to move so I can sit. After you say no, I call the cops and they arrest you.
I don’t disagree about the robots using the sidewalk, but for now, that’s allowed, even if it’s dumb. The law hasn’t caught up.
I think the park bench is analogy is wrong because a person sitting isn’t equivalent to a traveling delivery robot. Surely one does not expect the entire sidewalk for their own use, robot or not, just like no reasonable person could demand a bench from someone actively using it.
I think a better thought experiment would be you walking down the sidewalk to work, and then me getting in your way specifically and preventing you from moving any further forward. Then you get mad (rightly so) and call the cops because someone’s bothering you and you can’t get by. If I were to continue to block you when they arrive and tell me to step aside repeatedly, and I still don’t move to let you past, of course I’d be arrested.
It’s stupid because I agree with her and your position about the robots, but not the method used here. It’s very old man yells at clouds energy to me.
I can just walk around you. Why doesn't the bot do it?