Andy bristled at the word “vandalism” and preferred “shenanigans” to describe coning activity. He had another reason for declining to share his full name: He codes and works in the tech industry. He does not want to be branded a Luddite, even if he said the term accurately reflects his perspective on robotaxis and technological progress in general.
Many Safe Street Rebels have careers in the tech industry, he said, and “we’re skeptical of it because we work with it.”
Such expertise can breed reservations, and that parallels the experience of the actual Luddites, English textile workers who rebelled against the use of machinery at the dawn of the factory age in the early 1800s.
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