Sorry, but the politicians were largely on Google's side, sharing your absolutely ignorant enthusiasm. It took a massive, years-long grassroots campaign of engineers, residents, security researchers, urban planners, ethicists, etc etc, for us to finally amass enough political capital to pressure our elected representatives into actually, you know, representing us.
> it would have been an invaluable experiment.
That's the point. There are proven solutions to the problems this city faces, with long histories of being researched in universities and implemented elsewhere. These are the things we need, not "experiments". We are the fourth largest city in North America, not a test ground for American "innovation".
> it would have been an invaluable experiment.
That's the point. There are proven solutions to the problems this city faces, with long histories of being researched in universities and implemented elsewhere. These are the things we need, not "experiments". We are the fourth largest city in North America, not a test ground for American "innovation".