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No one was in Waymo’s driverless taxi as it was surrounded and set on fire in San Francisco’s Chinatown.

A person jumped on the hood of a Waymo driverless taxi and smashed its windshield in San Francisco’s Chinatown last night around 9PM PT, generating applause before a crowd formed around the car and covered it in spray paint, breaking its windows, and ultimately set it on fire.

The fire takes place against the backdrop of simmering tension between San Francisco residents and automated vehicle operators. The California DMV suspended Waymo rival Cruise’s robotaxi operations after one of its cars struck and dragged a pedestrian last year, and prior to that, automated taxis had caused chaos in the city, blocking traffic or crashing into a fire truck. Just last week, a Waymo car struck a cyclist who had reportedly been following behind a truck turning across its path.

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[-] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 51 points 9 months ago

I can't believe there's an actual place where these driverless death machines have been let loose on the public.

[-] operacion_ogro@hexbear.net 36 points 9 months ago

afaik the entire Bay Area is a proving ground for every useless private venture that wants to cannibalize public space

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago

Useless? I'm sure the executive's bank accounts are put to plenty of use

[-] oregoncom@hexbear.net 28 points 9 months ago

bazingaland.

[-] RuthlessCriticism@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago
[-] blakeus12@hexbear.net 1 points 9 months ago

wait really? 😒

[-] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 48 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This is the company that three years ago, the big Youtube channel Veritasium did a huge sponsored video on. He made statements during (and afterwards outside the video) essentially implying anyone against driverless cars was an objective idiot.

[-] AlbigensianGhoul@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 9 months ago
[-] Hestia@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago

When trusting Google maps goes too far.

[-] Hestia@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago

Yeah, that video made me realize he was a total sellout

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago

If it's being advertised on Youtube, it's bullshit.

[-] Bloobish@hexbear.net 44 points 9 months ago

elmofire

Also

The fire takes place against the backdrop of simmering tension between San Francisco residents and automated vehicle operators. The California DMV suspended Waymo rival Cruise’s robotaxi operations after one of its cars struck and dragged a pedestrian last year, and prior to that, automated taxis had caused chaos in the city, blocking traffic or crashing into a fire truck.

Wow so this was legit community defense against tech bro bullshit, love to see that people won't allow themselves to be used like test driving manikins by sociopaths!

[-] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 43 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

waymo jaguar

not only was it driverless it was a luxury brand. bang up job.

[-] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 18 points 9 months ago

smash the mechanical exoskeleton to get at the soft flesh of the bourgoisie

[-] supafuzz@hexbear.net 43 points 9 months ago

opening salvo in the butlerian jihad? inshallah

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 41 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

A great action:

  1. Documented public safety issue.
  2. Prominent example of "if I did this shit (reckless driving) I'd get arrested but it's a big company so it's allowed."
  3. No material benefit to the participants, which cuts down on openings for opportunists/accusations of opportunism.
  4. No worker is directly involved on the receiving end.
  5. Accurately identified a target of real public ire.
  6. Minimal inconvenience to ordinary people.
[-] panopticon@hexbear.net 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

6.9 get to smash a car that belongs to some capitalist

[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 36 points 9 months ago

sounds like this is community defense, love to see it

[-] CantaloupeAss@hexbear.net 33 points 9 months ago

Absolutely fucking BASED

SF enters the cool zone

cool-zone

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 30 points 9 months ago
[-] SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 29 points 9 months ago

This is great but it would be even more great if they took their rage out on the politicians who greenlit testing this bullshit on public roads to begin with.

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 24 points 9 months ago

Baby steps. You start small and work up.

[-] regul@hexbear.net 22 points 9 months ago

Normally when SF wins or loses a national sports championship, it's a Muni bus, so I consider this a huge improvement.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 22 points 9 months ago

Loving this arg promo for the new dune movie.

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago

started-blasting This is infinitely more intersting than that sleep dust empty void husk equivalent of watching already dried paint insult of a film.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 1 points 9 months ago

I recently learned that Lynch really didn't like the final version of his Dune and I really wish I could see what he would have come up with if he'd been able to do more.

Also, I want to see Michael Kirkbride's Dune.

[-] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 19 points 9 months ago
[-] Nationalgoatism@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago
[-] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago

Tech Heresy will not be tolerated

[-] deforestgump@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago

Now THIS is activism!!

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