Posted on 02/11/2024 2:10:12 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
A driverless taxi was set ablaze by an unruly crowd amid Lunar New Year celebrations on the streets of San Francisco Saturday night.
Vandals in the city’s Chinatown neighborhood surrounded the Waymo robotaxi before breaking the window and throwing fireworks inside, according to The San Francisco Standard.
It was unclear what prompted the lawless destruction of the autonomous vehicle, which was not carrying any passengers, according to the report.
The vandalism was caught on camera, and resulted in the car erupting in fire and smoke as crowds clogged Jackson Street near Grant Street.
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Until they start shooting these idiots, nothing will change.
“AI and robots vs. inner city America.”
Isn’t this the way terminator started?
wy69
LOL... you beat me to it! (Total Recall Taxi driver)
Flashback: It’s 2084, and construction worker Doug Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is having a day to forget. He’s had his memories messed with, his wife just tried to kill him, and it turns out he might be a spy from Mars. Trying to escape, he leaps into a Johnnycab: an autonomous vehicle complete with a robot “driver”.
Equipped with a peaked cap and pre-programmed responses like “Hope you enjoyed the ride” and “Fasten your seatbelt!”, the robotic Johnnycab looks like a 1950s ventriloquist’s dummy. Until Arnie pulls its robot head off, grabs the joystick and speeds away.
Flashforward to today: Johnnycab is part Uber, part self-driving (and electric) car, part humanoid robot, and part voice recognition system. Yes, Johnnycab is kind of already here. But it also has some distance to go.
Ned Ludd will rise. There will be a neoluddite movement.
Haha, you beat me to it!
Johnnycab!!!
The charging cables will be gone within minutes of being installed.
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Not if they are left energized at 480+Volts. Only a few will be damaged. Then they will be left alone.
They are practicing rioting in case the 49ers win/lose the SuperBowl. Which I’m not watching after CBS gushed over LaBoring, Taylor Swift and other celebrities at the game. Then they had that psuedo Black song, so I decided to shut off my TV..
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