Lawmakers pass regulations to cut down on delivery robots as pedestrians tire of sharing sidewalks with ‘aggressively entrepreneurial wet dreams’In something of a reversal for San Francisco,a city that has served as a petri dish for disruptive innovations in recent years, lawmakers this week passed strict regulations to reduce the number of delivery robots that technology startups have introduced to the city’s sidewalks.“Not every innovation is all that great for society, and ” said the San Francisco supervisor Norman Yee,who authored the legislation. “whether we don’t value our society, whether we dont value getting the chance to travel the store without being hasten over by a robot … what is happening?”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk