“I’m afraid NYC is about to be caught flat-footed again for the third time in a dozen years with another promise of a traffic elixir. Let’s table AVs in NYC until they’re proven safer than conventional cars,” said Sam Schwartz in a New York Daily News article. He also posted a video of a Waymo turning the wrong way down 5th Avenue: https://www.tiktok.com/@ravipuri5228/video/7547855067550993695?_r=1&_t=ZT-8zZVluKhrKv. “AV companies self-certify how safe they are. There have been no comprehensive independent studies of the industry.
“I estimate each robo-taxi vehicle will have the equivalent deleterious effect on traffic as two to three Ubers. That’s because they can stay in motion seven days/week and 18 or more hours/day. Fully autonomous vehicles may [also] be used as weapons by malicious actors. A 2024 report by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Vehicle Incident Prevention and Mitigation Security Guide, warned, ‘Emerging technologies in the form of fully autonomous vehicles (FAV) may pose a threat as they expand the potential tactics malicious actors can employ for targeted vehicle attacks.’”
– Sam Schwartz, Transportation Research Program
Source: The New York Daily News
