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This is a pretty concerning detail buried near the end. How safe is it to bikers to be sharing space with these kinds of things? And if they become more common, what stops them from crowding out the space entirely?
The same thing that keeps bikers from crowding out multiple lanes when they travel. Think of the robots' safety!
I wonder what the legal ramifications of pushing one over would be
You can rest assured corpos will have laws on the books to protect their property. Don't be surprised if this property becomes an extension of their "person" and attempted murder or manslaughter charges are a possibility.
It'll probably be classified as terrorism before too long.
It's around 5 feet tall, 3 feet wide, and 350 pounds... No matter the safety mesures that thing should not be sharing a espace with what could be an 80 pound kid on rollerblades with a heltmet.