As if things were not bad enough in my once fair city.
Sorry, Bearister, but I have no video worth posting, because my problem with the self-driving cars is that they don't move. They just sit there, causing following cars to form a line behind them, stuck there until the oncoming traffic allows an opening for us to pass the robocar, one by one.
Some of them have a human in the car, and some don't. When I pull up next to one of them, if there is a human inside, he or she will just shrug their shoulders, with no clue about how to get moving. If there is no human inside, there is no telling if that car will ever move or just sit there.
In Golden Gate Park, I came upon a line of cars with one stopped at a stop sign. That car never moved. No one was inside that car, so one by one, we all passed this stationary beast, flipping off the big hunk of machinery.
When I come up behind a stopped robocar, I try and stop at different distances behind it, figuring that maybe it does not want to move, because I came too close to his bumper. It doesn't seem to matter how close I come, he is just going to stay there immovable, until I blow my top.
The last time I came up behind one of these immobile beasts at a stop sign, I waited a minute or two, then passed him, made a quick left, then a right turn at the next corner, and at the next corner another right turn, all the while breaking all speed limits, hoping that I could get ahead of the little bugger. As I approached the intersection, the robocar pulled up to intersection, stopped quickly and took off again. The robocar had probably anticipated my maneuver, and timed it just right to beat me to the next intersection, which it did.
Lately, I've seen an increasing number of robocars, parked at the curb, or side of the road, with lights flashing. No driver, no human, just a car sitting there. As least it was not blocking traffic.
SFCityBear
