We Are All Bad Drivers
The wreckage after a mob attacked a self-driving car in San Francisco’s Chinatown neighborhood. (Séraphine Hossenlopp via the San Francisco Fire Department)
Anyone rooting against self-driving cars is cheering for tens of thousands of deaths, year after year. We shouldn’t be burning self-driving cars in the streets. We should be celebrating them.
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The simmering anger toward autonomous vehicles—and tech writ large—ignited, literally, in San Francisco this month. A mob attacked one of Waymo’s self-driving cars in San Francisco’s Chinatown neighborhood, vandalizing the Jaguar robotaxi. Then someone threw a firework into the passenger seat. The innocent self-driving car was burnt to a crisp.
For some,…
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