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JuniperMesos • today at 12:09 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Because the robot is operating normally and not particularly trying to obstruct her or any other person; whereas she is deliberately interfering with the robot because she has a political grievance against delivery robots and thinks it is good to interfere with their normal operation. The law should absolutely make a distinction between those two things when regulating what sorts of physical movement on the public street constitute a crime.


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crote • today at 12:21 AM

You are making a lot of assumptions about both her and the robot's intentions.

Who's to say the robot hasn't been given bad-faith programming to never yield to assert dominance? What if the human had been blind or in a wheelchair, unable to move out of the way?

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