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A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco (www.theverge.com)

submitted 9 months ago by L4s to c/technology

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A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco::A Waymo car was destroyed in San Francisco as a crowd began vandalizing it and ultimately set the car on fire. Nobody was in the vehicle at the time.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It really, really isn't common.

Here's an NBC report from two years ago: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/breaking-point-sf-suffers-highest-rate-of-car-break-ins-compared-to-atlanta-dc-dallas-la/2731757/

The TL;DR is that the top cities in terms of car break-ins (per 1,000 people) are:

San Francisco - 19.8 Seattle - 19.7 Atlanta - 12.9 D.C. - 10.4 Dallas - 7.8 Houston - 7.5 L.A. - 6.0

That shit ain't normal. Outside of San Francisco and apparently Seattle. The whole rest of the country doesn't have this problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

It is a more common problem in certain cities, I'm not denying that but that doesn't mean it's rare in other places. I didn't know it was that much higher there though, that does make those top cities outliers.