You can tell these are made by Bay Area-based rather than LA companies because they weren't equipped with on board lasers to fire at each other after the collision.
I mean, have these people ever tried to park a bike in a major city? The secondary market for stripped autonomous sidewalk garbage is going to be huge.
This paper might be relevant to regulation of sidewalk delivery robots in California:
Kovacic, M., Marvin, S. & While, A. 2024. Regulating sidewalk delivery robots as a disruptive new urban technology. Urban Geography, 45, 7, 1236–1255. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2023.2275426
Also, lack of connectivity between different types of self-navigating cars and robots is a growing problem.
“A Comprehensive Study and Analysis of the Third Generation Partnership Project’s 5G New Radio for Vehicle-to-Everything Communication.” URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/fi16010021
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Kovacic, M., Marvin, S. & While, A. 2024. Regulating sidewalk delivery robots as a disruptive new urban technology. Urban Geography, 45, 7, 1236–1255. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2023.2275426
“A Comprehensive Study and Analysis of the Third Generation Partnership Project’s 5G New Radio for Vehicle-to-Everything Communication.” URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/fi16010021