Once firefighters got the situation under control, only a burned husk of the Waymo remained.
Members of the crowd defaced the vehicle and threw a firecracker inside it, which set it on fire.
The incident occurred just days after a Waymo self-driving carhit a bicyclistin San Francisco.
The motive behind the incident is unknown. The San Francisco Police Department is investigating.Photo: Séraphine Hossenlopp / San Francisco Fire Department
The incident led California tosuspend the operation of Cruise robotaxisin the state over safety concerns.
He alsorecorded it and posted it to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
That was when it went WILD.
Photo: Séraphine Hossenlopp / San Francisco Fire Department
[There were] people with skateboards breaking the glass, and others graffitiing the car.
There were 2 groups of people.
Folks who encouraged it and others who were just shocked and started filming, the software engineer explained.
Vandi said he then saw someone light a firework under the car.
He left when he heard the sirens from the fire department getting closer.
As part of his work, he listens to the police dispatch and the emergency services radio scanner.
When he got there, he said the authorities were unsure what car they were looking at.
Waymo cars are made by Google while Zoox cars are made by Amazon.
They look nothing alike.
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