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Waymo car vandalized and lit on fire in San Francisco
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- uoaei 3y agoThe question is irrelevant til a car has a self.
- trompetenaccoun 3y agoDo you mean technically or in reality? There is a already a lot of negative sentiment in SF and an increasing number of Westerners who are anti tech and anti progress. That includes people working in the media, just look at the constant criticism in reporting. If it becomes to bad, cars will not be programmed to run over people in self defense. The development would simply move elsewhere and the techphobic parts of the world will be left behind. Something like this would never happen in East Asia, it's inconceivable you'd get a mob of Japanese vandalizing a self-driving car for no good reason other than hate of the tech.
- Roark66 3y agoSome people are horrible idiots with amazing level of stupidity. Equating fpv drones with "weapons", AI in general with driverless cars. If we allow this hostile sentiment to spread it will be uneconomical for companies like waymo to operate. It would be a huge shame if it came to that. This (driverless tech) is amazing for what it can do to help people that are old/poor and live in places with no public transport (we have lots of little villages full of people like this with a bus once a day often going only one way). What is the most expensive conponent of proving public transport to such places? Drivers.
- DemocracyFTW2 3y ago> This (driverless tech) is amazing for what it can do to help people that are old/poor and live in places with no public transport This is so cynical. First cars were used to destroy much of the existing public transport in places like the US and Europe, now drivers are next. This is so sick, employment (i.e. people) are only seen as a nuisance, a cost factor, a legacy, biding their time until they can be machined out of the picture. FTS.
- MiguelX413 3y agoWould it be better to waste life-hours on automatable things?
- Anonbrit 3y agoIf there are people who enjoy those automatable things? Yes, absolutely
- DemocracyFTW2 3y agoNinja'd me
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- mise_en_place 3y agoArguments about driverless cars aside, the youth in this country are seriously lost. It only takes one generation of poor parenting and poor civic policies to ruin a culture.
- throwaway5959 3y agoThose people aren’t youths. They’re in their 20s and 30s. What are you talking about? Is that considered youth at this point?
- stonogo 3y agowhat would you describe the period before middle-aged? why might it be called middle-aged?
- throwaway5959 3y agoI call them adults.
- stonogo 3y agoExtremely old people are adults too. The term most frequently used to describe the 20s-30s range is "young adult."
- maximinus_thrax 3y agoYou do realize people were considering the 'youth' to be lost since antiquity, right? The youth are just fine, worry about yourself.
- shermantanktop 3y ago> the youth in this country are seriously lost When you were a kid, don’t you think your parents and grandparents said the same thing?
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- mrtksn 3y agoAre there statements from the people who actually did this? I'm trying to understand the context. It's intriguing, people in a city with over $300K GDP per capita burning an AI enabled transportation robot. I feel the urge to fit it in some kind of cyberpunk narrative.
- hot_gril 3y agoThere's no statement, so it just looks like random destruction. But people in SF have vandalized e-scooters and specifically blocked tech companies' buses before.
- wodenokoto 3y agoLots of people in SF feel that these tech companies are pricing them out of their hometown. Or it could just be regular vandals looking for an excuse to tear up something and a vague memory about a self driving car killing someone in the news was good enough to tear up one of them.
- meowtimemania 3y agoI feel like if you live in SF and don’t own property or don’t work in tech, the rise of the tech industry has been bad for you.
- creer 3y agoSF was a city of "old money" long before the tech companies set foot there. And old money still seems to have a lot of say in San Francisco. But yes, that doesn't prevent people who don't even seem to be aware of that "old money" from going after tech.
- smsm42 3y agoSF streets aren't exactly safe for cars for a long time. Breakins are extremely routine occurrence. So, this one time somebody decided to take it up a notch. No need to make Butlerian Jihad out of it.
- techie128 3y agoPer capita income doesn't reveal the actual income disparity. SF wasn't always expensive city to live. It was in fact quite the opposite. Last several decades have made the city inhospitable for the economically vulnerable population. Instead of looking at the per capita GDP, you should see the income distribution in the city. The median household income is $126,000 which is not a livable wage in the city for a family. The recent poverty rate is ~10%. My perception is that, people were partying & were drunk. The Waymo vehicle likely was just passing through and probably got stuck. People simply took out their pent up frustration on it. It's nothing more than that.
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