I was just going to say that the roads are for humans, not machines, but this is a better idea.

All I'm gonna say is if you put a traffic cone on the hood of one it will refuse to move because they avoid cones at all costs.

But Waymo taxis are demonstrably safer than human drivers.

Maybe you're thinking of Tesla who's significantly worse than human drivers because they ditched LIDAR.

I walk my dog with a pocket full of rocks to throw at cars.

Can’t afford bricks. There’s a war on.

I actually have a small but bright orange hatchet (I spray it to help keep rust off it and also to make it super easy to spot from the other side of my campsite) I keep on my bag, mostly for Camping, but I use the same bag when I'm on my bike.

I've started keeping it on, and have seemingly had less people giving me shit when I'm biking through town.

Until the AI goes full-on Christine

I don't think it'll succeed in a developed country in general

They stop and can't move again with a cone on the hood.

Do with that information what you will.

These cars aren't looking through the windscreen. They're covered in sensors and probably use LIDAR system to navigate. They see in the dark and through fog.

It's fairly obvious where the sensors are located looking at the car. And because these cars are dumb as hell, it takes relatively little to disrupt their ability to tell the difference between say, a person the car has to stop for, and a cardboard cutout of Scott Bacula. Or a traffic cone, as another user mentioned though that particular exploit may have been patched out by now.

Someone is going to spray paint dicks on them

We need a word for the singularity event when AI becomes more humane than fuckwits.