Case in point: Last weekend, some pedestrians in the city decided to turn a couple of stalled Waymos into a jungle gym. Cellphone video taken around 2 a.m. last Sunday shows three vehicles stopped at the intersection of Fillmore and Greenwich streets. A few individuals were seen climbing onto the vehicles and sitting on top of them. At one point, one of them does a backflip off of the vehicle, to cheers from a gathered crowd of onlookers.
Why are people doing backflips off of Waymo robotaxis?
Answer: Because they don’t like them.
San Francisco has been a proving ground for the viability of driverless vehicles for years now, both in terms of testing the technology itself as well as the public’s response to it. Lately, the public’s response hasn’t been very positive.
Case in point: Last weekend, some pedestrians in the city decided to turn a couple of stalled Waymos into a jungle gym. Cellphone video taken around 2 a.m. last Sunday shows three vehicles stopped at the intersection of Fillmore and Greenwich streets. A few individuals were seen climbing onto the vehicles and sitting on top of them. At one point, one of them does a backflip off of the vehicle, to cheers from a gathered crowd of onlookers.
Fortunately, the vehicles were empty of passengers and they don’t appear to have sustained any damage. City police eventually showed up and cleared the area.
Case in point: Last weekend, some pedestrians in the city decided to turn a couple of stalled Waymos into a jungle gym. Cellphone video taken around 2 a.m. last Sunday shows three vehicles stopped at the intersection of Fillmore and Greenwich streets. A few individuals were seen climbing onto the vehicles and sitting on top of them. At one point, one of them does a backflip off of the vehicle, to cheers from a gathered crowd of onlookers.
