<h2>Ban Hammer</h2>
Facial recognition technology is everywhere you look — from <a href="https://futurism.com/apple-just-released-new-details-about-iphone-x-facial-recognition">unlocking phones</a> to <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2018/12/17/the-amazing-ways-facial-recognition-ais-are-used-in-china/#44411c425fa5">shaming jaywalkers</a>. But should corporations have the power to use it on you without consent?
That&#8217;s the question the city of San Francisco is tackling right now. A member of the city&#8217;s Board of Supervisors proposed a ban on facial recognition technology for city agencies on Tuesday, <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/san-francisco-could-be-first-ban-facial-recognition-tech/">Wired reports</a> — potentially forcing tech companies to justify the use of surveillance tools.
<h2>&#8220;Coercive and Oppressive Ends&#8221;</h2>
San Francisco city board member Aaron Peskin is calling for an approval process for any new surveillance technology purchases by city agencies such as license plate readers, CCTV, and gun-detection systems.
&#8220;I have yet to be persuaded that there is any beneficial use of this technology that outweighs the potential for government actors to use it for coercive and oppressive ends,” Peskin told Wired.
Notably, the proposal doesn&#8217;t include an approval process for the use of private surveillance tech in public spaces. It also leaves questions about how the bill might affect local law enforcement.
<h2>Growing Momentum</h2>
There&#8217;s momentum growing around the idea of limiting the use of facial recognition technology — particularly when it comes to law enforcement. Even Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned of a <a href="https://futurism.com/microsoft-president-face-recognition-tech">1984-like future</a> at a Web Summit in November — despite reports of his company <a href="http://fortune.com/2019/01/15/coalition-pressures-amazon-microsoft-google-facial-recognition-surveillance-government/">selling facial recognition tech</a> to the government for surveillance.
But the tech might already be so deeply entrenched in society that it&#8217;s too late to rip it out of the ground and ban it completely.
READ MORE: <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/san-francisco-could-be-first-ban-facial-recognition-tech/">San Francisco Could Be First to Ban Facial Recognition Tech</a> [Wired]
More on facial recognition: <a href="https://futurism.com/the-byte/facial-recognition-red-flags-police-lied">Police Said You Could Skip Public Facial Recognition. They Lied.</a>

The proposal also calls for an approval process for any future surveillance tech.

San Francisco is considering a ban on facial recognition

Face Blindness

A San Francisco Board of Supervisors member proposed to ban facial recognition outright, calling for an approval process for any future surveillance tech.

San Francisco Is Considering a Ban on Facial Recognition

Should the government be forced to justify new surveillance tools?

In the future, robots are going to be in charge of your food. <a href="https://futurism.com/this-robot-barista-is-faster-than-a-human-and-it-just-started-work-in-san-fran/">Robot baristas</a> will make you a latte, robot chefs will <a href="https://futurism.com/the-evolution-of-automation-meet-the-restaurant-run-by-robots/">whip you up a pizza</a>, and robot couriers will <a href="https://futurism.com/food-delivery-robots-rollout/">deliver you your lunch</a>.
It&#8217;s starting now in earnest. Next Wednesday, Silicon Valley CEO Angelo Vardakostas and mechanical engineer Steven Frehn will open the doors of a classy burger joint called Creator in San Francisco in which a burger bot will prepare you a delicious burger for just $6 — likely one of the cheapest burgers you can find in the area.
The machine itself is enough to make you drool. Sleek curves and subtle design cues make it look like a work of art, not a dirty behemoth that squeezes out greasy patties. The machine truly imparts its creators&#8217; vision, which, according to a <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/building-the-ultimate-burger-bot/">recent Wired interview</a>, is to &#8220;shape the future of fast food&#8221;.
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Its specs are impressive. It can whip up 120 burgers an hour, and will cost less than $1 million, Vardakostas <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-burger-joint-where-robots-make-your-food-1529599213?mod=e2fb">tells the Wall Street Journal</a>. Though the pair doesn&#8217;t have plans to license the machine yet, they will likely re-evaluate after their restaurant officially opens.
The machine is the culmination of Vardakostas&#8217; lifelong dream to create the robotic kitchen of the future. No more tedious and repetitive burger flipping in front of a hot grill, something he had to endure from an early age. And it&#8217;s been a long time coming — it took almost a decade of prototyping and substantial rounds of funds raising to arrive at Creator.
But there&#8217;s a common thread keeps sneaking its way in to the conversation: will robots take away our freakin&#8217; jobs? It&#8217;s a tough question that&#8217;s been plaguing Vardakostas, and it&#8217;s a very real one. Automation is set to destroy a lot of jobs — according to <a href="https://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3837763">a 2017 study</a>, 1.8 million of them worldwide by 2020.
And the burger flippers among us are especially vulnerable. When asked who will suffer as a result of automation, economic historian Joel Mokyr previously <a href="https://futurism.com/experts-automation-jobs/">told Futurism</a>, &#8220;The short answer is people who have boring, routine, repetitive, and physically arduous jobs.&#8221; If that doesn&#8217;t describe flipping burgers, I don&#8217;t know what does.
There&#8217;s been plenty of backlash from the food industry itself. Las Vegas food service workers <a href="https://futurism.com/las-vegas-food-service-workers-strike-automation/">went on strike back</a> in May to protest robots taking their jobs.
But automation is becoming an unstoppable force. Countless fast food joints are imbuing their restaurants with <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/01/iron-chefs/546581/">automated</a> bells and whistles, from salad preparing machines, to <a href="https://futurism.com/self-serve-kiosks-mcdonalds/">self-serve kiosks</a>. It&#8217;s a growing trend that&#8217;s already shaping the future of the way we enjoy and prepare food.
But it&#8217;s not all doom and gloom. A restaurant is more than a gigantic 14-foot long burger bot standing in the middle of an empty room. Employees still have to maintain the machine, refill ingredients, instruct customers on how to use it, advise them on how to make a selection, clean, and manage the space itself. <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/building-the-ultimate-burger-bot/">According to Wired</a>, Creator will have up to nine employees working during peak hours, roughly the norm in the conventional fast food industry.
It would be naive to think that automation won&#8217;t end up shrinking the number of food service workers at least in some ways, but new positions created by emerging technologies could actually end up helping workers. Many of their roles are going through changes that — at least for the optimistic among us, like Vardakostas — will open doors for them. &#8220;As opportunities come up to fix the machine, there’s a path we’re going to offer people as repair or maintenance people to get paid even more,&#8221; co-founder Steven Frehn <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/21/creator-hamburger-robot/">tells Tech Crunch</a>.
So will burger joints like Creator catch on? Hard to say at this point. For now, Creator is one burger joint of the million or so in the bustling metropolis. But it won&#8217;t only have to prove itself as a viable business model — it will also win over the hearts of those who oppose such automation in the food service industry. And that may be even more difficult.

A restaurant is more than a gigantic 14-foot long burger bot standing in the middle of an empty room.

This sexy burger machine won't necessarily steal your job, but could make it better

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And the burgers it makes are delicious.

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I&#8217;m walking down the sidewalk, minding my own business. Suddenly, someone zips by, way too close for comfort, on a little platform with wheels. No, it&#8217;s not a skateboard — it has handlebars.
It&#8217;s a freaking scooter. One erratic step and they would have decked me.
Instantly, I hate it, and its rider.
This is an increasingly common experience for people in a growing number of cities — Seattle, Los Angeles, San Jose, Washington D.C., San Francisco. Electric scooters are now all the rage in San Francisco, where they are reportedly wreaking terror on residents.
The <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/adults-are-terrorizing-san-francisco-on-tiny-electric-scooters-1524670611?mod=e2fb">Wall Street Journal writes</a>: &#8220;&#8216;All hell broke loose&#8217; after the scooters seemingly arrived overnight in San Francisco, said the city’s supervisor, Aaron Peskin, who is spearheading legislation to regulate scooter-sharing programs. It is, he said, &#8216;a Wild West situation.&#8217;”
I concede, scooters look kind of fun to ride. The ones covering San Francisco like it&#8217;s freakin&#8217; cicada season have little electric motors and can travel up to 15 miles per hour, making it easy to zip up Frisco&#8217;s notorious hills, and to do so in an eco-friendly way.
Investors are certainly excited. Scooter rideshare startup Bird <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bird-fundraising/scooter-sharing-company-bird-raises-100-million-in-new-funding-idUSKCN1GL2U4">recently closed $100 million in funding</a>. One investor said: &#8220;It feels like investing in Uber when it first launched,&#8221; according to <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/09/bird-is-raising-100-million-to-become-the-uber-of-electric-scooters/">Tech Crunch</a>. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/apr/25/electric-scooters-urban-transport-bird-santa-monica-uk">T</a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/apr/25/electric-scooters-urban-transport-bird-santa-monica-uk">he Guardian pondered</a>: &#8220;Are ride-share electric scooters the future of urban transport?&#8221;
The answer is a clear no. The reason? Scooters might seem fun for people riding them, but they&#8217;re horrible for everyone else.
First, people are riding them on sidewalks. People get understandably ticked off when they have experiences like mine, not to mention how unwelcome people must feel if they&#8217;re in a wheelchair or otherwise differently abled. Honestly, folks, move that motorized stuff to the street or bike lanes.
Another nuisance: people are littering the scooters wherever they damn well please. They <a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wj79jq/san-francisco-is-fighting-the-scooter-trend-with-poop-and-vandalism-bird">end up littered</a> on sidewalks once used for actual walking, in intersections, in trees, in the actual bay. Instead of doing actually important things, San Francisco police <a href="http://abc7news.com/traffic/city-officials-confiscate-dockless-scooters-throughout-san-francisco/3367722/">have to spend their time confiscating</a> these suckers. It&#8217;s reportedly gotten so bad people have called it &#8220;<a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/04/its-wheelmageddon-san-francisco-is-being-overrun-by-venture-backed-scooters">Wheelmageddon</a>.&#8221; And this &#8220;voluntary, intentional, migrating, mobile, functional, litter&#8221; is literally pushing communities apart, according to <a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ne9gxd/electric-scooters-san-francisco-limebike-the-commons?utm_source=mbfb">an article published in Motherboard</a>.
Also, like with pretty much anything fun, it can be dangerous. Yes, the companies <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BhmebV-FFmb/">hand out free helmets</a> and their terms of service <a href="https://qz.com/1257997/electric-scooters-are-flooding-california-and-theyll-be-on-your-sidewalks-soon/">require riders </a>to don them (as is required by law), but people seem to be treating it as optional.
Indeed, injuries are inevitable. Riders pay little mind to factors that have been shown in the past to <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=118046&amp;page=1">cause an uptick </a>of scooter-related injuries (because <a href="https://orthoinfo.aaos.org/en/staying-healthy/scooter-related-injury-prevention/">yes this happened</a>), such as their footwear, riding down steep hills, or taking the weather into account.
That&#8217;s important because the number of pedestrian and cyclist deaths <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/hit-and-run-fatalities-soar-as-more-people-bike-to-work-1524735001?mod=e2fb">is up this year</a>, maybe because people are using their smartphones instead of paying attention to the road. I&#8217;m not saying this has happened on a scooter, but I&#8217;m not saying it hasn&#8217;t, either.
People are already taking matters into their own hands; there have been a few reports of <a href="http://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/people-behaving-badly-motorized-scooters-are-being-vandalized-in-san-francisco/1142127585">pooped-on scooters</a> (though it&#8217;s not clear whether that&#8217;s the protestors or riders who are doing that. Honestly it&#8217;s kind of a crapshoot).
Other, more mature folks are calling for regulation. When Bird&#8217;s scooters showed up on the Santa Monica, police issued 97 citations in about a month, and the city filed nine counts of a criminal complaint against Bird, the<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/sudden-appearance-of-electric-scooters-irks-santa-monica-officials/2018/02/10/205f6950-0b4f-11e8-95a5-c396801049ef_story.html?utm_term=.26e421049a54"> Washington Post reports</a>. The city of San Francisco has already <a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/San-Francisco-Issues-Cease-and-Desist-Letter-For-Electric-Scooters-479925473.html">issued a cease and desist</a> for the three scooter companies, and supervisor Aaron Peskin has also <a href="https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&amp;ID=6205257&amp;GUID=CC2884CA-580F-488D-BE3C-DE56D083C301">filed a resolution</a> to regulate the scooters. The city&#8217;s transportation department may also limit the number of scooters each company can have in the city, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-considers-electric-scooter-limits-2018-4">Business Insider reports</a>.
These scooters <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/03/bike-share-oversupply-in-china-huge-piles-of-abandoned-and-broken-bicycles/556268/">could go the way of the failed Chinese bike share program</a>. But I really hope things don&#8217;t turn out that way — instead of ending up in landfills, I hope these scooters can be recycled, so they can become something that&#8217;s actually useful.

Stop trying to get me to ride a scooter. They make everything worse for everyone.

Scooters are definitely not the future of transportation

Advanced Transport

Cities are being overrun by electric scooter rideshares. Some people are convinced they're the future of transport. They're wrong.

Scooters Are Definitely Not the Future of Transportation

They are a fun, dangerous, arrogant hazard. 

<h2>Express Delivery</h2>
<a href="https://futurism.com/robotic-pizza-delivery-service-to-debut-in-london/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Delivery robots</a> are still a rare sight in the U.S., but that might not be the case for much longer. In order to get ahead of the game, authorities in San Francisco have passed new regulations that will control their usage.
Companies will be limited to three robots each, only nine of which will be allowed to traverse the whole city. These limits were put in place by new rules enacted by San Francisco&#8217;s board of supervisors. Furthermore, the activity of these robots will be limited to industrial areas where there aren&#8217;t many people around.
The regulations also state that the machines are not permitted to travel at more than three miles per hour, and must be accompanied by a human supervisor at all times. Bob Doyle, a spokesman for the Association for Advancing Automation Association, compared these restrictions to the early days of automotive vehicles where cars had to be preceded by a person carrying a flag.
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“To put such a strict limit on these types of autonomous delivery vehicles drastically slows down the process of testing and the potential for these being put into (use before) the general public,” Doyle <a href="http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/San-Francisco-to-robots-Don-t-crowd-our-12411062.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told the San Francisco Chronicle</a>.
If delivery robots are ever to enter widespread use, it&#8217;s vitally important that they have been tested at length, and in similar conditions to those that they&#8217;ll ultimately be working in. It&#8217;s being argued that these restrictions are short-sighted, as they could prevent companies from perfecting these machines through that kind of rigorous, real-world testing.
The original proposal submitted by supervisor Norman Yee set out to ban the robots outright. The ban was proposed to prevent the robots from overcrowding sidewalks, similar to previously proposed bans pertaining to Segways and bicycles.
<h2>Machines Among Us</h2>
Automation and artificial intelligence give various industries new opportunities when it comes to their workforce. This will <a href="https://futurism.com/mckinsey-finds-automation-eradicate-third-americas-workforce-2030/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">change the job market for humans</a>, but it&#8217;s also set to have a wider impact on society.
For instance, if a delivery robot causes an accident, <a href="https://futurism.com/rights-synthetic-lifeforms-civil-rights-controversy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">who is to blame?</a> Responsibility would likely fall to the company that owns it, but there isn&#8217;t the direct culpability that would apply to an individual. Without the proper means of compelling the owners of these robots to <a href="https://futurism.com/experts-want-robots-to-have-an-ethical-black-box-that-explains-their-decision-making/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prioritize public safety</a>, putting limitations on their usage might be the best idea.
San Francisco is something of an outlier when it comes to its restrictions of delivery robots. Elsewhere in California, including the Bay Area, Redwood City, San Carlos, Sunnyvale, and Concord, pilot programs have been approved. While further afield, other states, including Idaho, Wisconsin, Virginia, Florida, and Ohio, have all given their blessing for robots traversing city streets, too.
Integrating robots and other automated workers into our society will offer up all kinds of moral and ethical dilemmas. This technology stands to contribute a <a href="https://futurism.com/ubi-universal-basic-income-alternative/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wide range of benefits to our society</a>, but we&#8217;ll need to carefully plan the unleashing of robots in our cities if we want to walk peacefully beside them on the sidewalk.

If a delivery robot causes an accident, who's to blame?

San Francisco approves tight regulations on delivery robots

Robots & Machines

Delivery robots could play a key role in our heavily automated future. New legislation passed in California applies stringent regulation to their usage.

San Francisco Approves Tight Regulations on Delivery Robots

Companies will be limited to a fleet of three robots that travel slower than three miles per hour.

<h2>Slow Connection</h2>
As of last week, San Francisco is the first major city in the United States to commit to connecting each of its homes and businesses to a fiber optic network. The Fiber for San Francisco Initiative has recommended that procurement for a fiber optic network in San Francisco begin &#8220;as early as possible.&#8221;
While San Francisco is <a href="https://futurism.com/driverless-ubers-in-san-francisco-yes-dmv-approval-no/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one of the country&#8217;s technology hotspots</a>, its internet connectivity isn&#8217;t too great. It&#8217;s not uncommon to find pages loading slowly; like many regions in the US, the infrastructure doesn&#8217;t take full advantage of modern technology.
The fact of the matter is that the private sector sees no real reason to install a fiber optic network, given that it takes an enormous amount of time, effort, and money. Even Google&#8217;s Fiber program, while well-received by users, <a href="https://futurism.com/ultra-fast-internet-google-fiber-says-no-new-cities-are-going-online/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was eventually discontinued</a> because it was so difficult to put in place.
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Comcast has made no plans to introduce a <a href="https://futurism.com/a-faster-internet-terabit-networking-was-just-successfully-tested/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fiber optic network</a>, and it&#8217;s the dominant force among the city&#8217;s internet providers. Officially, AT&amp;T is planning to implement fiber infrastructure in the city, but its progress on similar projects elsewhere in the US has been very slow going. The other providers that serve San Francisco don&#8217;t have the means or motivation to put in a network that serves the entire municipality in place.
Here&#8217;s the bigger issue: <a href="https://futurism.com/growing-movement-give-everyone-world-internet-access/">fast, reliable internet is necessary</a> for improvements to various other essential public services. If we want to advance our efforts in healthcare, education, energy usage, and the growth of industry, strong internet connectivity is a prerequisite. Cities that have already installed fiber-optic networks, <a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ezpk77/chattanooga-gigabit-fiber-network">like Chattanooga, Tennessee</a>, have seen a boom in jobs and local economic growth. Yet currently, <a href="https://muninetworks.org/communitymap">only 95 communities</a> in the US have city-wide fiber optics installed.
<h2>Setting the Standard</h2>
Eight years ago, a <a href="http://www.ctcnet.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/SFFiberFeasibilityReport.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report commissioned by the city of San Francisco</a> suggested that a fiber network would be the best route to pursue. However, a previous attempt to offer citywide internet access ended in failure, so a great deal of preliminary research has been carried out over the last several years.
A new report by Fiber for San Francisco goes into detail on how the city might execute these plans. Fiber would be laid down in two primary categories; a &#8216;dark&#8217; skeleton that provides infrastructure without a retail relationship, much like a public works construction, and &#8216;lit&#8217; sections that internet service providers could use to funnel access to their customers.
This method would allow for harmony between public and private interests. <a href="https://futurism.com/congress-just-voted-to-allow-internet-providers-to-sell-your-browsing-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Internet service providers</a> wouldn&#8217;t be as likely to combat the project, as they would be able to take advantage of the end result. If it comes to pass, and it&#8217;s a success, San Francisco could set a precedent for other cities to follow.

For one of the country's tech hotspots, San Francisco's internet is currently fairly lukewarm.

San Francisco has approved a plan for city-wide fiber internet

Future Society

A recent report commits to laying down a public fiber optic network in San Francisco. It'll bring fast, reliable internet and improved public services.

San Francisco Has Approved a Plan For City-Wide Fiber Internet

The Bay would join 95 other US cities currently wired with fiber optics.

<h2>Reliable Transportation, Everywhere for Everyone</h2>
With the considerably successful run of its <a href="https://futurism.com/breaking-ubers-self-driving-taxis-have-hit-the-streets/" target="_blank">self-driving taxis in Pittsburgh</a> last September, Uber began preparing to make its autonomous service available in its hometown of San Francisco. After lots of preparation and hype, the ride-hailing company was finally able to launch the service last Tuesday, making San Francisco the second city in the world where Uber offers autonomous cars for public transportation.
Uber wanted to test just how well their autonomous vehicles could handle roads different from those in Pittsburgh. &#8220;We drove in the rain and other kinds of weather, and we’ve added lane-changing capabilities since we started in September,” <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/technology/uber-self-driving-car-san-francisco.html?_r=1" target="_blank">said Anthony Levandowski</a>, Uber&#8217;s VP of self-driving technology. “Now we want to see how we operate in this new environment, especially with the giant hills that San Francisco has to offer.” It was also the launch the XC90,<a href="https://futurism.com/volvo-and-uber-have-partnered-to-make-self-driving-cars-a-reality-in-5-years/" target="_blank"> Volvo&#8217;s lidar-equipped self-driving SUV</a>.
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<h2>Uber&#8217;s Regulatory Hassles</h2>
Unfortunately, the success was short lived.
The next day, California government officials at the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) put the brakes on the project, saying Uber didn&#8217;t have the necessary permits to test its autonomous vehicle service.
“It is illegal for the company to operate its self-driving vehicles on public roads until it receives an autonomous vehicle testing permit,” writes Brian G. Soublet, deputy director of the DMV in California, in a letter to Uber. “Any action by Uber to continue the operation of vehicles equipped with autonomous technology on public streets in California must cease until Uber complies.”
Uber believes it didn&#8217;t violate any rules. &#8220;[T]he rules apply to cars that can drive without someone controlling or monitoring them,&#8221; <a href="https://newsroom.uber.com/san-francisco-your-self-driving-uber-is-arriving-now/" target="_blank">writes Levandowski</a>. &#8220;For us, it’s still early days and our cars are not yet ready to drive without a person monitoring them.&#8221;
This all comes after one of Uber&#8217;s Volvo XC90s ran a red light shortly after the service was implemented in San Francisco, and was caught on camera. The episode raised questions about the safety of Uber’s self-driving technology.
“This incident was due to human error,” Uber said in a statement. “This vehicle was not part of the pilot and was not carrying customers. The driver involved has been suspended while we continue to investigate.”

Uber launched its self-driving service in San Francisco last Tuesday, making it the second city in the world where Uber offers autonomous cars for public transportation.
The next day, California government officials at the DMV said Uber didn't have the necessary permits to test its autonomous vehicle service.

Driverless Ubers in San Francisco? Yes. DMV Approval? No.

Uber's autonomous driving service hits its hometown, but runs into a permit problem.

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