An offended mob destroyed a Waymo self-driving taxi in San Francisco on Monday night time. The incident occurred round 9pm native time when a gaggle of roughly 20 people surrounded the stationary Waymo automobile.
Whereas footage of the occasion has surfaced on-line, it stays unclear what prompted the mob to destroy the automobile. Hypothesis has arisen following a latest incident involving a Waymo automobile colliding with a bike owner within the metropolis.
Waymo attributed the collision to the bike owner immediately rising from behind a big truck, catching the autonomous automobile off-guard. Nonetheless, there is no such thing as a proof suggesting that aggrieved cyclists had been concerned within the assault on the Waymo automobile.
San Francisco’s streets have witnessed the presence of self-driving vehicles, together with these operated by Cruise robotaxi, till latest controversies prompted the corporate to halt its total fleet. Incidents involving Cruise autos, corresponding to a lady being struck and dragged by a driverless automotive and others getting caught in moist cement, have raised issues concerning the security and reliability of autonomous expertise.
Regardless of celebrating a million miles of autonomous operations and not using a fatality in early 2023, Waymo has confronted twenty “contact incidents,” half of which concerned human drivers colliding with its autos.
As investigations into the motive behind the assault on the Waymo automobile proceed, the incident underscores ongoing debates surrounding the security and public acceptance of self-driving expertise.
(Photograph by Ricardo Gomez Angel on Unsplash)
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