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Board adopts guiding principles and directs six-month work group on emerging public-facing technologies
Summary
The Board unanimously passed a resolution asking the city administrator to convene a six-month working group to develop permitting and regulatory recommendations for emerging technologies that operate in public space. Supervisor Yi said the measure grew out of automated-delivery legislation and cited scooters, dockless bikes, security robots and
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution establishing guiding principles for future legislation regulating emerging technologies deployed in public space and urged the city administrator to convene a six-month working group to develop permitting and regulatory recommendations.
"We are all acutely aware of the motorized scooter share programs and the stationless bike startups that's been happening in the last few months," Supervisor Yi told the board during discussion of Item 38. "These pervasive mobile instances of emerging technology in our city must accommodate the most vulnerable…
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