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A Waymo robotaxi was vandalized and then set on fire by a crowd of mass Saturday eve in San Francisco ’s Chinatown neck of the woods . The incident is the latest meeting between driverless vehicles and the world in San Francisco , a city where sovereign fomite companies have spend long time testing the technology on public streets .
The Saturday night incident , which was captured on video and shared on societal media epithelial duct , did n’t appear to be a interconnected effort . rather , the video recording show a crowd becoming progressively nark up and fierce once the driverless vehicle becomes skirt .
AWaymospokesperson confirm that there were no passenger in the driverless fomite at the prison term . The caller ’s instruction :
At about 9 PM on Saturday , February 10th , a fully autonomous Waymo fomite was navigating through San Francisco when a crew surrounded and vandalized the vehicle , breaking the windowpane and throw a pyrotechnic inside , which lay the vehicle on flak . The fomite was not transporting any riders and no injuries have been reported . We are work closely with local guard official to respond to the berth .
This is n’t the first prison term San Francisco citizen have mess with a driverless vehicle . And it likely wo n’t be the last .
Last summer , a decentralised group of safe street activist in San Francisco disabled robotaxis throughout the metropolis byplacing a dealings coneon a fomite ’s toughie .
The “ Week of Cone , ” as the grouping called the viral trick on Twitter and TikTok , was a form of protest against the spread of robotaxi services in the city . The protest came ahead of a California Public Utilities Commission hearing , in which Cruise and Waymo receivedthe last permit required to commercially maneuver robotaxi service in San Francisco .
There have also been videos picture mass attacking Cruise robotaxis . But with Cruisecurrently suspendedfrom operating in the metropolis , Waymo is the only driverless robotaxi service , and the most seeable symbolization of autonomous tech , in the city .
