The city has become the crucible of an experiment - are robotaxis ready for the streets?
My heartbeat quickens just a little as the cab approaches. It's a bizarre sight, one that I thought I wouldn't see in my lifetime.
And some have gone a step further. Over the summer a campaign group has begun to disable the cars, by putting cones on their bonnets. There were Uber and Lyft drivers worried that robotaxis would take away their livelihoods: "If you allow self-driving taxis to expand, it's going to take jobs away from families. I'm a single mum," said Rosine, an Uber driver in the city.
There were others representing physically disabled people who wondered how they would be able to get into cabs without help from a driver. Mara Math, a member of the Paratransit Coordinating Council, said the embrace of robotaxis would "leave disabled San Franciscans out in the cold". There was also a mother who said taxi drivers had rejected her when they saw her children's car seats - something a driverless car would never do.
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