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Carl's Jr. has several workers and a manager right there to restart the grill and get it working again.

These coners are exploiting a simple hack that would ordinarily be nothing but a minor nuisance to a human driver, but it turns into a showstopper for an SDC, because there is no responsible human for dozens of miles around. It disables the car for an inordinate period of time without a realistic mitigation. It's genius!

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Okay, disabling self-serve gas pumps during off hours at a 24/7 station. Removing a stop sign in the middle of the night. Turning on the faucet in an unoccupied apartment.

The ethical difference is that none of your examples stem from an interference in public safety.

SDCs are rolling into active shooter zones, they're blocking police, fire, and hydrants, they're actively stalking pedestrians.

This is not some random prankery or vandalism, this coning is a non-violent statement in defense of human dignity and rule of law.

No, it's clearly against California law, you can search the legislative record to see that Waymo and Cruise operations have been authorized.

Would love to know what law this is in violation of. Also laws can be changed if they're dumb.

Did you miss the latter part of the comment? Waymo and Cruise operations in California have been explicitly authorized, i.e. written down on paper/databases, passed through the legislature that has binding authority on all of California, etc...

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