Investigators are trying to determine what prompted a crowd in San Francisco to attack a Waymo robotaxi in San Francisco on Saturday night.
A Waymo self-driving car was set upon by vandals in San Francisco on Saturday evening.
According to footage and eyewitness reports of the incident, the attackers graffiti’d the car, before smashing its windows and throwing fireworks inside. The vehicle then caught fire and burned out before fire crews arrived to extinguish the blaze.
No passengers were in the Waymo vehicle when it was set upon, and no bystanders are thought to have been hurt in the incident.
The fire department posted pictures of the remains of the autonomous Jaguar I-Pace car, adding that a firework started the blaze:
It’s not currently clear if a particular occurrence prompted the crowd to attack the car, or if the incident was pre-planned in any way.
