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A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco (www.theverge.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wtf are YOU talking about?? What are you basing that on? I have lived in multiple cities where many people leave their car window down so it doesn't get broken. Even suburbs!

I am baffled by this exchange right now haha. Is there some kind of study that has shown no city has smash and grab crime like SF? It's common nearly everywhere in the US. Are you trying to say SF is a crime-ridden hellhole like no other?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It really, really isn't common.

Here's an NBC report from two years ago: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/breaking-point-sf-suffers-highest-rate-of-car-break-ins-compared-to-atlanta-dc-dallas-la/2731757/

The TL;DR is that the top cities in terms of car break-ins (per 1,000 people) are:

San Francisco - 19.8 Seattle - 19.7 Atlanta - 12.9 D.C. - 10.4 Dallas - 7.8 Houston - 7.5 L.A. - 6.0

That shit ain't normal. Outside of San Francisco and apparently Seattle. The whole rest of the country doesn't have this problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

It is a more common problem in certain cities, I'm not denying that but that doesn't mean it's rare in other places. I didn't know it was that much higher there though, that does make those top cities outliers.