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The self-driving taxi company also said its vehicles were in the wrong place at the wrong time in Los Angeles after protesters set fire to several of the cars there.<\/p>\n

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After protesters set fire to five Waymo robot taxis in Los Angeles on Sunday, the company on Monday began preemptively limiting rides to areas of San Francisco where people were expected to gather to show their opposition to President Trump\u2019s immigration policies.<\/p>\n

Waymo declined to say where in San Francisco it would suspend its service or for how long. Its robot taxis are popular in the city and have become a tourist attraction<\/a>. The vehicles, which are electric Jaguar I-Paces and include dozens of cameras and sensors, cost around $100,000 each.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re aware of potential protests and will not be providing service in the areas protesters may be gathering out of abundance of caution,\u201d a company spokeswoman said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The robot taxis have become a way for some protesters to display resistance to the tech industry\u2019s close ties to the Trump administration, said Elise Joshi, an activist in San Francisco who attended rallies on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWaymos don\u2019t have human drivers, they\u2019re devoid of humanity,\u201d she said. Destroyed robot taxis are \u201csymbolic of the attempts, throughout the history of this country, by the tech industry to strip us of community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Waymo\u2019s actions in San Francisco followed the burning of its self-driving cars in Los Angeles on Sunday, where hundreds of people have demonstrated in recent days against the Trump administration\u2019s escalating immigration enforcement activity. Images of burned Waymos \u2014 including one protester with a Mexican flag posing for photos above the scorched cars \u2014 quickly spread online. Elon Musk and right-wing influencers then shared the image and others like it as emblems of the supposed dysfunction in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Waymo cut its service off in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday evening, in coordination with the Los Angeles Police Department, a company spokeswoman said. She said its vehicles were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time and added that the company did not know if the damaged vehicles were hailed by protesters with the intention of being destroyed, or if they were just dropping off riders in the area.<\/p>\n

Waymo announced in November that its service was \u201copen to all in Los Angeles.\u201d In 2023, Mayor Karen Bass sent a letter<\/a> to the California Public Utilities Commission highlighting several incidents with self-driving taxis and arguing that more testing was needed. Other groups, including disability rights organizations, have argued that autonomous taxis can help their constituents.<\/p>\n

In May, Waymo said it was providing more than 250,000 paid robot taxi rides a week in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Austin and Phoenix.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The self-driving taxi company also said its vehicles were in the wrong place at the wrong time in Los Angeles after protesters set fire to several of the cars there.After protesters set fire to five Waymo robot taxis in Los Angeles on Sunday, the company on Monday began preemptively limiting rides to areas of San Francisco where people were expected to gather to show their opposition to President Trump\u2019s immigration policies.Waymo declined to say where in San Francisco it would suspend its service or for how long. Its robot taxis are popular in the city and have become a tourist attraction. The vehicles, which are electric Jaguar I-Paces and include dozens of cameras and sensors, cost around $100,000 each.\u201cWe\u2019re aware of potential protests and will not be providing service in the areas protesters may be gathering out of abundance of caution,\u201d a company spokeswoman said in a statement.The robot taxis have become a way for some protesters to display resistance to the tech industry\u2019s close ties to the Trump administration, said Elise Joshi, an activist in San Francisco who attended rallies on Monday.\u201cWaymos don\u2019t have human drivers, they\u2019re devoid of humanity,\u201d she said. Destroyed robot taxis are \u201csymbolic of the attempts, throughout the history of this country, by the tech industry to strip us of community.\u201dWaymo\u2019s actions in San Francisco followed the burning of its self-driving cars in Los Angeles on Sunday, where hundreds of people have demonstrated in recent days against the Trump administration\u2019s escalating immigration enforcement activity. Images of burned Waymos \u2014 including one protester with a Mexican flag posing for photos above the scorched cars \u2014 quickly spread online. Elon Musk and right-wing influencers then shared the image and others like it as emblems of the supposed dysfunction in Los Angeles.Waymo cut its service off in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday evening, in coordination with the Los Angeles Police Department, a company spokeswoman said. She said its vehicles were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time and added that the company did not know if the damaged vehicles were hailed by protesters with the intention of being destroyed, or if they were just dropping off riders in the area.Waymo announced in November that its service was \u201copen to all in Los Angeles.\u201d In 2023, Mayor Karen Bass sent a letter to the California Public Utilities Commission highlighting several incidents with self-driving taxis and arguing that more testing was needed. Other groups, including disability rights organizations, have argued that autonomous taxis can help their constituents.In May, Waymo said it was providing more than 250,000 paid robot taxi rides a week in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Austin and Phoenix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29342,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29343,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29340\/revisions\/29343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}