Driverless taxi vandalized and set on fire in San Francisco’s Chinatown

California authorities investigating if attack on Google's Waymo car is latest in series of protests targeting autonomous vehicles

Authorities in California are working to determine if the destruction of a driverless taxi in an arson attack by a mob of lunar new year revelers was the latest in a series of protests targeting autonomous vehicles in the state.

According to the San Francisco fire department, which posted images of the incinerated SUV on Twitter/X, a group of people jumped on the electric vehicle in the city's Chinatown district Saturday night, smashing windows and spraying it with graffiti before setting it alight with a firework.