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A Waymo robotaxi was vandalized and burned in San Francisco

Waymo robotaxi was vandalized and set on fire by a crowd, the latest encounter between driverless vehicles and the public in San Francisco.

Last summer, a decentralized group of safe streets activists in San Francisco disabled robotaxis throughout the city by placing a traffic cone on a vehicle’s hood. The “Week of Cone,” as the group called the viral prank on Twitter and TikTok, was a form of protest against the spread of robotaxi services in the city. The protest came ahead of a California Public Utilities Commission hearing, in which Cruise and Waymo received the final permit required to commercially operate robotaxi services in San Francisco.

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