This happened during street festivities for lunar new year, so a lot of people are connecting the dots. They don’t mention that the car was aggressively trying to drive through a crowd, but it seems like it was trying to make its way through a crowd.
Multiple witnesses said Waymo’s navigation technology became confused by festivities and fireworks that were lit to celebrate the Lunar New Year. Witness Anirudh Koul said the driverless car “got stuck immediately in front.”
Another witness said the car’s presence in the middle of Chinatown’s celebrations triggered frustrations in the crowd. “You could feel the frustration when people were just trying to celebrate,” she told KRON4.
“They were putting out some rage for really no reason at all. They just wanted to vandalize something, and they did,” witness Edwin Carungay told KGO-TV.
The witness told the outlet the Waymo was vandalized and set on fire by a big group of people.
“One young man jumped on the hood, and on the windshield.,” Carungay told KGO. “That kind of started the whole melee.”
Ask yourself, this is a Chinese new year celebration, a street party. Why is there a driverless car in the middle of a street party?
All the media reports start with a driverless car in the middle of a street party, surrounded by really angry people. Why was the car there? Why are they angry at it?
They were going nuclear on it for one reason.
it drove into the crowd and didn’t recognize the crowd as People.
It was actively trying to drive through them.
Where is that quote from? I didnt see it in the article
This happened during street festivities for lunar new year, so a lot of people are connecting the dots. They don’t mention that the car was aggressively trying to drive through a crowd, but it seems like it was trying to make its way through a crowd.
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/why-did-a-san-francisco-crowd-light-waymos-driverless-vehicle-on-fire/
So the car’s presence was annoying them. That’s not exactly a great justification for torching it.
Found the driverless car.
Found the irrational mob.
Two driverless cars in one thread! As I live and breathe!
Maybe the driverless cars were the friends we made along the way…
Shut up, CarGPT.
No, but kids will be kids. It’s the way things go now.
Seems like the witnesses saw it differently.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/02/12/waymo-set-on-fire-sf/72567647007/
From the original social media video.
Ask yourself, this is a Chinese new year celebration, a street party. Why is there a driverless car in the middle of a street party?
All the media reports start with a driverless car in the middle of a street party, surrounded by really angry people. Why was the car there? Why are they angry at it?
Nope. Try again.
That sounds like BS you are making up, any source?
No article has mentioned that, the story so far has been that it was minding its own business when someone jumped on the hood.
To be honest it was a link on Kbin that had raw video of the entire thing.
But just stop and think:
The car fucked up and the oligarchs are protecting it.
So you’re making it up