Police confirmed they had responded to a report of “criminal mischief involving a robot” on the 1200 block of Filbert Street around 1:16 p.m. on Wednesday. A woman on the scene ignored “multiple commands” to move, they said, resulting in a criminal violation notice for disorderly conduct.
Uber declined to comment.
Marvin, who plans to contest the charge on the grounds of her First Amendment right to protest, has been undeterred by the arrest. She plans to continue blocking Uber Eats robots and chatting with curious passersby who ask what she’s doing.
“It allows me to talk to people about what’s going on,” she said. “It’s always very interesting conversations that we have, and I think it’s good to have those kinds of conversations in public space.”
You guys want humans to deliver goods as a job forever? I understand not replacing artists, musicians, etc.
We probably should have a support system in place before we replace everyone with robots first. But that will never happen.
Yup. I have no real problem with the concept being pushed around of automation giving us freedom, except that our capital obsessed society has no plan for how to support humans during this revolution and little willingness to even entertain the idea that it’ll be necessary.
We can’t pay for universal income until robots pay off the national debt which is 40 trillion
In an idea world yes but more that the robots are owned by mega corporations and ultimately have the goal of charging the customer as much as they can with the cheapest possible service
People need jobs to survive.
Only in the current system, you can’t imagine a better system where we are free from mindless work?
The flock bots get in my way when I’m walking down the sidewalk. Fuck 'em
You don’t own the sidewalk, it’s public
Hey sidewalks are public, therefore there is zero issue. Glad that is resolved.
You can also complain other people get in your way on a sidewalk. It’s not your private property, you don’t own the sidewalk