Technology

59627 readers

2807 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

446

A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco (www.theverge.com)

submitted 9 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

205 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago (29 children)

Waymo's base is in China Basin. It's worth noting that the area of the city is rampant with homeless people. I'm talking so many damn RVs that there are shanty villages that catch fire. Problems galore. The police will go out to clean it up and they just move to another are a few blocks away. I can totally see this happening where it is because the area sucks and no one would ever know until it was done and over with.

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago (28 children)

People living in RVs count as homeless?

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Homeless doesn't necessarily mean sleeping under a bridge. You can be crashing at a friend's place and still be homeless if you don't have a home of your own to go back to. An illegally parked RV with no mailing address doesn't count as a home for most purposes.

[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But how many of those people would consider themselves homeless? RV shit is a total fucking lifestyle for a lot of people.

[–] Misconduct@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It's not a lifestyle if it's not by choice. Try finding a job without an address. The people that do it as a "lifestyle" are usually just wealthy turds or social media dweebs larping as happy families on the road despite their kids being obviously miserable

[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Well... Yeah. That's why I asked how many of them consider themselves homeless? Obviously some are forced to but then there's some people who just really fucking like RVs?

[–] Misconduct@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

I would guess that most of them consider themselves homeless. Especially if they're living in those makeshift tent cities. Either way, they are homeless if they don't have an address.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 3 points 9 months ago

Everyone in this area mentioned in the above comment is in the former group. None are in the latter group.

load more comments (26 replies)