During Lunar New Year celebrations in San Francisco's Chinatown in February 2024, a crowd smashed the windows of a Waymo robotaxi and set it on fire using fireworks.

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"During Lunar New Year celebrations in San Francisco’s Chinatown in February 2024, a crowd smashed the windows of a Waymo robotaxi and set it on fire using fireworks."

Contemporary reporting from The San Francisco Standard documents the destruction of an autonomous Waymo vehicle on February 10, 2024. Rodney Brooks later used the incident to discuss human agency and autonomous robots, making it relevant to the chapter's treatment of control.

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Source title Waymo robotaxi goes up in flames in Chinatown after crowd attacks vehicle

Source authors George Kelly; Julie Makinen; Josh Koehn

Source year 2024

Confidence high

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