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LA’s experiment with homeless mannequins for robot testing encapsulates the city’s broader crisis—a societal failure to address fundamental issues while superficial fixes dominate the agenda. As the streets become more dangerous and the social issues more entrenched, the city's leaders appear more interested in political ambition and superficial measures than in genuine reform.
The ongoing stories, from the deployment of dodging robots to the political theater surrounding homelessness and budget failures, paint a bleak picture of a city in decline—one that may be better suited to dystopian fiction than to real life. Yet it is the reality facing Los Angeles today—a city grappling with its own failures and the hope or despair of future solutions.