Food delivery robots are struggling to steer clear of Chicago’s bus stop shelters. Within just 48 hours, two autonomous couriers from different companies veered off course and collided with shelters shattering glass and alarming nearby residents. These pair of dramatic incidents come amidst brewing tension among community members and lawmakers in Chicago who oppose the robots’ presence. The crashes also come just weeks after one of the manufacturers announced it was integrating a new mapping system trained on “Pokémon Go” data which is designed to improve navigation accuracy.
They get to abuse public infrastructure to build their stupid little robots tax free, and we get to pay for the repairs with our tax dollars.
Privatize the gains, socialize the losses.
Require them to fix AND pay a fine, or let the city fix it and pay 4x the cost AND still pay the fine. Shit will stop happening quick.
Nah the second option. You know they’d fix it shitty.
They never let a private citizen repair public infrastructure that they broke, I’m pretty sure paying to fix it means the company is paying the city or transit authority to do the repairs.
Seems they’re covering it for now, but it’s anyone’s guess how long the conscientious PR approach will last.