Self-Driving Car Opponents Have a New Weapon: Traffic Cones

You may have heard of tire-deflating SUV haters, but now there are people waging war against another type of vehicle: self-driving cars. A group of San Franciscans realized that they can disable Waymo and Cruise robotaxis by placing a traffic cone on the vehicle's hood. They also say the self-driving vehicles are unsafe to pedestrians, and they block traffic such as buses and emergency vehicles. "As a pedestrian, I am concerned," a member of Safe Street Rebel told ABC 7. The company says putting traffic cones on the hood and stopping vehicles amounts to vandalism and is dangerous.