A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo automobile in San Francisco

An individual jumped on the hood of a Waymo driverless taxi and smashed its windshield in San Francisco’s Chinatown final night time round 9PM PT, producing applause earlier than a crowd shaped across the automobile and coated it in spray paint, breaking its home windows, and in the end set it on fireplace. The hearth division arrived minutes later, in line with a report in The Autopian, however by then flames had already absolutely engulfed the automobile.

In the meanwhile, no retailers appear to have reported a motive for the assault. Waymo consultant Sandy Karp advised The Verge through electronic mail that the absolutely autonomous automobile “was not transporting any riders” when it was attacked and fireworks have been tossed contained in the automobile, sparking the flames. Officer Rueca of San Francisco’s police division confirmed in an electronic mail to The Verge that police responded at “roughly” 8:50PM PT to seek out the automobile already on fireplace, including that there have been “no experiences of accidents.”

A video posted by the FriscoLive415 YouTube channel exhibits the burnt-out husk of the electrical Waymo Jaguar.

One other set of movies posted by software program developer Michael Vendi offers a view into the scene because it performed out and the hearth grew.

Metropolis officers and residents opposed the automobiles being given a license for twenty-four/7 operation final 12 months, with some residents rendering them motionless by placing orange cones on the automobiles’ hoods in protest.