Article from Reason by Christian Britschgi.
Companies in San Francisco might soon to be required to get a permission slip from the city before rolling out their new innovations in public spaces.
On Tuesday, Norman Yee, president of the city’s Board of Supervisors, introduced a bill that would create the Office of Emerging Technology (OET). Entrepreneurs looking to deploy any emerging technology “upon, above, or below” city properties or public rights-of-way would need to first obtain a pilot permit from the OET’s director.
“As a city, we must ensure that such technologies ultimately result in a net common good and that we evaluate the costs and benefits so that our residents, workers and visitors are not unwittingly made guinea pigs of new tech,” said Yee in a statement to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Over the years San Francisco’s tech companies have deployed all kinds of inventions in public spaces, including package delivery robots and dockless electric scooters. But because these innovations were,
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San Francisco is gigantic left wing freak show !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They want to protect the public, how noble of them. Of coarse it couldn’t have anything to do with getting more money into their corrupt hands, could it, nah, that can’t be it.
They want to protect the public. That’s why they have a huge homeless problem with rats, needles, and excrement all over the streets….
No permits needed for that type of emerging te… yuck.
It makes sense that a city require permits before experimental technology is used on city properties.
The only drawbacks I see is the possibility of left-wing political favoritism with companies and traditional good old fashioned bribery as Raymond implies.
You can’t Vape on the streets of San Francisco, but you can Crap on the streets of San Francisco! Wow has the “City by the Bay” been screwed up by the likes of of far left wing Democrat city officials!
Sin Francisco
Wonder if they’ve consider making it illegal to defecate on public streets?
No way ! They even have a app on the smart phone that lets the Department of public works know the location of the pile of poop ! I would quite my job and move to a much better State in a freaking New York minute if I was told to go clean up the scat of a homeless drug using waste of life.
I visited SFO several times years ago, but will NEVER go back to the new SFO rat hole!