No one was inside a Waymo car as it was destroyed.

A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco::A Waymo car was destroyed in San Francisco as a crowd began vandalizing it and ultimately set the car on fire. Nobody was in the vehicle at the time.

  • GladiusB@lemmy.worldEnglish
    164·
    9 months ago

    Waymo’s base is in China Basin. It’s worth noting that the area of the city is rampant with homeless people. I’m talking so many damn RVs that there are shanty villages that catch fire. Problems galore. The police will go out to clean it up and they just move to another are a few blocks away. I can totally see this happening where it is because the area sucks and no one would ever know until it was done and over with.

      • Dra@lemmy.zipEnglish
        26·
        9 months ago

        This question is such a depressing example of Bay-Area inhumanity. God Bless America

      • tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        19·
        9 months ago

        Often the RVs in places like OP is referring to are dilapidated and don’t run, with tarps on them, not connected to water or power. Essentially a small shanty house in a slum so I guess it depends on your definition

      • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        14·
        9 months ago

        Last I checked, RVs are not permanent or semi permanent structures, nor do they have addresses, so… Yes. It’s living in your car, just a bigger car with amenities

        • RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          Which should absolutely NOT be made illegal. Give these people places to actually park their RVs that have facilities to use, instead of pushing more people to end up on the streets.

          Someone should be allowed the freedom to live in an RV if they so choose or can’t afford anything else.

          Just help give them a decent place to do it.

      • GladiusB@lemmy.worldEnglish
        132·
        9 months ago

        The RVs are usually not drivable. The last time they moved them in front of my old job, none of them ran. They had to tow away more than they drove away. I guess you can argue that doesn’t make them totally homeless, but they are definitely creative.

      • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
        11·
        9 months ago

        Homeless doesn’t necessarily mean sleeping under a bridge. You can be crashing at a friend’s place and still be homeless if you don’t have a home of your own to go back to. An illegally parked RV with no mailing address doesn’t count as a home for most purposes.

        • EdibleFriend@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          But how many of those people would consider themselves homeless? RV shit is a total fucking lifestyle for a lot of people.

          • Misconduct@lemmy.worldEnglish
            9·
            9 months ago

            It’s not a lifestyle if it’s not by choice. Try finding a job without an address. The people that do it as a “lifestyle” are usually just wealthy turds or social media dweebs larping as happy families on the road despite their kids being obviously miserable

            • EdibleFriend@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              9 months ago

              Well… Yeah. That’s why I asked how many of them consider themselves homeless? Obviously some are forced to but then there’s some people who just really fucking like RVs?

              • Misconduct@lemmy.worldEnglish
                4·
                9 months ago

                I would guess that most of them consider themselves homeless. Especially if they’re living in those makeshift tent cities. Either way, they are homeless if they don’t have an address.