Driverless cars are only annoying because we have a low tolerance for extreme rule abiding – Breaking News & Latest Updates 2026
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Driverless cars are only annoying because we have a low tolerance for extreme rule-abiding.

The latest “San Francisco residents hate all these robotaxis” dispatch just dropped, and it’s starting to seem that the complaints largely stem from our collective wish that autonomous vehicles would bend the everyday traffic rules that we, as humans, do everyday. Drive a little faster than you’re supposed to. Barrel ahead through thick fog and low visibility. Rolling stops. Double and triple parking. Maybe if the robot cars weren’t such fussy rule-followers we would like them more. Just saying.

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