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SenHeng • today at 3:38 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

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> In the aftermath of her arrest, Marvin has found out more about the legal infrastructure that protects robots. In 2020, the Pennsylvania legislature passed a law that classifies autonomous delivery robots — what the law calls “personal delivery devices” — as pedestrians, not vehicles. Democrats, along with labor unions and accessibility advocates, largely opposed the law on the basis that legalizing delivery robots could kill jobs and endanger children and pedestrians; Republicans touted it as an exciting technological advancement.

> The law means that a vehicle must yield to a delivery robot on crosswalks, just as it would to a person


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hardbass • today at 3:51 PM

Many useful things could kill jobs, yes. That's not a meaningful argument in itself.