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  1. The Brilliance of Disabling Self-Driving Cars With a Traffic Cone

    The cones immobilize the autonomous vehicles by forcing them into "shutdown mode" with their hazard lights on, "until the cone is removed or a company technician comes to reset the car's ...

  2. Protesters stop Waymo and Cruise self-driving cars with only a traffic

    Members of Safe Street Rebel place a cone on a self-driving Cruise car in San Francisco. Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images. Two people dressed in dark colors and wearing masks dart into a busy ...

  3. San Francisco group placing traffic cones on self-driving cars to

    SAN FRANCISCO -- A group in San Francisco is going around placing cones on Waymo and Cruise autonomous cars. Members of the Safe Street Rebels, a group known for advocating for pedestrian safety ...

  4. Robotaxi haters in San Francisco are disabling the AVs with traffic cones

    A decentralized group of safe streets activists in San Francisco realized they can disable Cruise and Waymo robotaxis by placing a traffic cone on a vehicle's hood, and they're encouraging ...

  5. San Francisco group placing traffic cones on self-driving cars to

    SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A group in San Francisco is going around placing cones on Waymo and Cruise autonomous cars. Placing cones on them disables the car and forces it to stop. The group doing ...

  6. Armed with traffic cones, protesters are immobilizing driverless cars

    Neither Cruise nor Waymo responded to questions about why the cars can be disabled by traffic cones. Waymo says it has a permit for 250 cars and it deploys about 100 at any given time. Cruise says it runs 100 in San Francisco during the day and 300 at night.

  7. San Francisco Activists Are 'Coning' Cruise, Waymo Robotaxis

    By Kevin Truong Published Jul. 07, 2023 • 1:00pm. A cohort of anti-autonomous vehicle activists in San Francisco has taken to placing traffic cones on the hoods of Cruise and Waymo robotaxis to literally stop their progress. The only-in-San Francisco scene causes the vehicles to go into shutdown mode and turn their hazard lights on until the ...

  8. Cruise and Waymo robotaxis sabotaged with traffic cones in San

    In a video posted to TikTok last week, the group demonstrated how the cars can be disabled by placing traffic cones on their hoods, and explained why it was moving to disrupt Waymo and Cruise's ...

  9. As Cruise, Waymo takeover looms in SF, activist cone stunt ...

    SF activists' 'coning' stunt against Cruise, Waymo self-driving cars goes viral. A Waymo autonomous vehicle drives along California Street on April 11, 2022 in San Francisco, California. Waymo ...

  10. Protesters, armed with traffic cones, are immobilizing driverless cars

    And a Cruise vehicle carrying a passenger collided with a fire truck. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: We don't really need traffic cones to show how vulnerable they are. KERR: The Safe Street Rebel ...

  11. Grumpy Locals Are Sabotaging Cruise and Waymo Robotaxis With Traffic Cones

    This has led the members of Safe Street Rebel to take matters into their own hands. They are raising further awareness of their cause while disabling Cruise and Waymo vehicles with a simple ...

  12. Robotaxi: GM's Cruise to offer its self-driving cars on Uber

    Starting next year, Cruise, the autonomous vehicle company backed by General Motors, will offer its self-driving cars on Uber's ride-hailing platform. Updated: Aug 25, 2024 01:39 PM EST Bojan ...

  13. Driverless Cruise Car Got Stuck in Wet Concrete in San Francisco

    A driverless Cruise car got temporarily stuck in wet concrete in San Francisco on Tuesday. The site had been marked off with construction cones and workers stood with flags at each end of the block.

  14. Driverless car startup Cruise's no good, terrible year

    Cruise rolled out hundreds of its robotaxis in San Francisco this year. A year ago, the future seemed bright for the driverless car startup Cruise. As 2022 wrapped up, CEO Kyle Vogt took to Twitter to post about the company's autonomous vehicles rolling onto the streets of San Francisco, Austin and Phoenix. "Folks," he wrote, "we are entering ...

  15. SF group placing traffic cones on self-driving cars to disable them

    A group in San Francisco is going around placing cones on Waymo and Cruise autonomous cars, which disables and forces them to stop. https://abc7ne.ws/44dspYn...

  16. Kenosha's Downtown Car Show revving up for Labor Day weekend

    What: Kenosha Classic Cruise-In, a car show open to all makes and models of vehicles. When: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 31. Where: Downtown Kenosha. Enter at 56th Street and Seventh Avenue.

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  18. Armed with traffic cones, protesters are immobilizing driverless cars

    Neither Cruise nor Waymo responded to questions about why the cars can be disabled by traffic cones. Waymo says it has a permit for 250 cars and it deploys about 100 at any given time.

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