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.

  • M0oP0o@mander.xyz
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    9 months ago

    So since a taxi driver in san fran makes (according to a quick google) $48,384 a year we can assume this means they need at least 2 years out of these to break even. This is assuming it does not get set on fire from the driver who is now out of a job.

    • masterspace@lemmy.ca
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      9 months ago

      What’s your point? That’s self driving systems are incredibly cheap and worth it? An ROI of 2 years on first generation hardware is very good spot to be in.