To be fair, they probably are safer. Even if they cross into a bike lane, sensor reaction time is far superior to any human. At least a couple of times now I've heard ties squealing behind me in a protected bus/bike line from cunts aggressively changing lane into it to get around traffic and only spotting my bike at the last second. I would feel much safer if 100% of cars on the road with me were controlled by software and not meatware.

I guess nobody in the car will stop you from slashing its tyres

Okay, so they are not road worthy then and must be prohibited from driving. It is that simple, or at least, it should be.

This is one of the reasons they only operate in a few places. Lots of jurisdictions would be more than happy to ticket and impound these cars when they fail to follow the law. Lots of revenue generation!

Exactly, it had better fukin kill me, or I am 1000% totalling that taxi

good thinking, I should carry at least a hammer with me, for repairs and loose nails . . . . never know!

Right? I don’t get to skip traffic rules because it’s too hard.

Believed life in danger so destroyed the car. Not guilty.

I don't know about other places, but this has been happening here in Seattle.

Great idea centralizing the drop of stops and doing that every 200m or so in a grid, especially at places of interest. Now you could make the self driving cars a little bigger so they carry more people. You could even connect several cars. At that point you can basically add a safety driver back in, with 20 ride sharers its still 95% self driving (compare that to Waymos that have uncertified safety drivers remoting from the Phillipines for 20% of the time). Run them on a predictable, frequent schedule, so you dont need an app to call them.

Finally make them drive in a separate lane, on iron tracks and make them draw their energy from an overhead wire for maximum efficiency.

seems nuts, but then again, we're talking about cars that drive themselves, Waymo wants more of these on the roads. A cyclist is a lost customer, so they might as well kill them, yeah?

it depends a lot in the city. many cities do the absolute minimum and barely just add paint on the side.

But annotation will take a loooong time and so much effort. It'll delay making money while they could just roll the dice and injure a few cyclists