A Waymo self-driving car was targeted and deliberately set ablaze by a group of people in San Francisco's Chinatown on Saturday evening. This incident is part of a rising trend of hostility towards autonomous vehicles, highlighted by an individual late last year on X: "The AI crusades have begun."
Local media outlet NBC Bay Area reports the self-driving Jaguar was traveling on Jackson Street, between Stockton and Grant, around 2100 local time when 10 to 15 people attacked it.
Videos on X show a group of people vandalizing the self-driving car.
Then someone tossed fireworks inside the vehicle, and that's when the fireworks show began.
"We are working closely with local safety officials to respond to the situation," Waymo said in a statement to The San Francisco Standard. The startup added that the car was not transporting any passengers at the time of the incident.
This comes after a string of attacks on self-driving cars across the progressive crime-ridden metro area
Back in July, we pointed out that members of Safe Street Rebels, a group that says these cars are "polluting, dangerous & murderous," were coning driverless cars across the city.
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