Autonomous delivery robots operating in Miami Beach will now face stricter rules, including new visibility requirements, insurance mandates and annual permits.
City commissioners adopted the regulations this week in response to growing concerns about pedestrian safety on the city’s narrow sidewalks.
“We’ve narrow sidewalks that were designed 100 years ago plus that did not contemplate bicycles and delivery robots and people with strollers and ADA mobility devices, and yet we are being forced to accept these onto our streets. So this is making the best of an unfortunate situation,” Commissioner Tanya Katzoff Bhatt said…