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A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/11/24069251/waymo-driverless-taxi-fire-vandalized-video-san-francisco-china-town

No one was inside a Waymo car as it was destroyed.

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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Yep, and for good reason honestly. I work in CV and while I don't work on autonomous vehicles, many of the folks I know have previously worked at companies or research institutes on these kinds of problems and all of them agree that in a scenario like this, you should treat the state of the vehicle as compromised and go into an error/shutdown mode.

Nobody wants to give their vehicle an override that can potentially harm the safety of those inside it or around it, and practically speaking there aren't many options that guarantee safety other than this.

A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco

A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco

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