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Why Waymo cars became sitting ducks during the L.A. protests
The autonomous taxis are designed to avoid any possibility of hitting pedestrians.
While it’s impossible to know if a human driver behind the steering wheel could have deterred or escaped vandalism in any specific case involving a robotaxi, driverless vehicles are generally designed to stay put if there’s any risk that they’d hit a person while moving. People using the company’s app in recent days were greeted with a message, alluding to the street protests: “Pickup times and routing may be affected by local events. Though the service restrictions may be temporary, they struck some people as discriminatory against poorer neighborhoods, with some social media users on X calling the practice “ redlining ” on the part of Waymo.
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