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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.
By Eric Newcomer
02.28.24 — Culture and Ideas
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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.

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Eric Newcomer
I write the newsletter Newcomer. I spent six years at Bloomberg reporting on the technology industry. Before that I was the first employee at The Information.
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