Kamala Harris campaign motorcade halted by confused robotaxis
Artificial intelligence may have shown the would-be-leader of the free world who's really in charge, after rogue robo-taxis halted the motorcade of US vice-president – and Democratic Party presidential candidate – Kamala Harris.
ABC7 News Bay Area reported that as Harris's motorcade passed through San Francisco on Friday night, it encountered a Waymo self-driving taxi that failed to make a U-turn. The veep's motorcade stopped, and traffic banked up behind the stricken robot until a police officer drove it away.
Self-driving cars have been involved in numerous incidents. We've reported them hitting telephone poles and driving on the wrong side of the road. We've also covered the sad case of a car in self-driving mode – but with a human behind the wheel – causing a fatality.
It is unclear if the cars that got in the way of Harris's motorcade were glitching, or if the incident signifies the beginning of a robot uprising or other AI-organized political protest.
