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Waymo robotaxi set on fire by mob in San Francisco Chinatown

S2 · 02/10
2024 · 21:25 PT · Waymo · San Francisco, CA, USA

Record

CompanyWaymo
Categoryav trucking
Typefire
Date02/10
2024
Time of day21:25 PT
LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA · Chinatown
SeverityS2 (minor injury or single-unit damage)
Scale1 vehicle destroyed
Confidencehigh
VerificationCited source on file; not independently re-verified
SourceCBS News

What happened

A crowd of 10-15 people surrounded an unoccupied Waymo vehicle during Lunar New Year celebrations, smashed windows, and threw a firework inside that set the vehicle ablaze; no injuries reported. Incident was vandalism/arson rather than a product malfunction.

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