Rage against the machine!

[ZipZapOuch]

Mob breaks windows of Waymo self-driving taxi in San Francisco during Lunar New Year celebration and sets interior ablaze with fireworks.

UPDATE 2-Crowd sets Waymo self-driving vehicle ablaze in San Francisco

A crowd vandalized and set fire to a Waymo self-driving car using a firework in San Francisco on Saturday, the Alphabet-owned company and authorities said, marking the most destructive attack so far on driverless vehicles in the U.S. On Saturday night, a crowd surrounded a white sport utility...

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[crutschow]

Looks like the Luddites are still alive and well.

 

[schmitt trigger]

Driving taxis or similar for-hire vehicles, is one of the last work opportunities for people with little or no education.
They see these autonomous vehicles as a threat to their livelihood.
Exactly like same feelings the Luddites had.

 

[ZipZapOuch]

Driving taxis or similar for-hire vehicles, is one of the last work opportunities for people with little or no education.
They see these autonomous vehicles as a threat to their livelihood.
Exactly like same feelings the Luddites had.

There are plenty of other jobs (mowing, pushing shopping carts, filling shopping carts with Uber eats orders, cashiers, waiter/waitreas, window washing, housekeeping, nursing assistant, dishwasher, various retail jobs, truck loader/unoader, Amazon order prep... the list goes on. The deal with Uber is that you can set your own hours and have no education while having a feeling of authority as you get to rate each customer's permanent record with a 0-5 Star rating. Authority and setting your own hours is practically like running your own business. The driver is a fricken entrepreneur - a master of his/her own universe.