I believe that you are saying the important thing here is that the driver of the vehicle lacks the ability to remove the cone from the vehicle. However, this is not accurate. The driver of an autonomous vehicle is not an algorithm, nor a computer. It is a corporate entity such as Cruise, Waymo, or Omni Consumer Products :-)
This corporate entity does have the ability to remove a cone from the vehicle. It just lacks a convenient agent to remove the cone, because that would require an additional expenditure that breaks the business model of profitably selling taxi rides without human taxi drivers.
It is not a crime to break a business model. Never has been, and with any luck, never will be.
