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In February, a wild scene took place on the streets of San Francisco's Chinatown neighborhood.

A crowd of people surrounded an empty Waymo driverless car and destroyed it.

They broke its windows and covered the doors in graffiti.

Ultimately, the car was set ablaze after someone threw a firecracker inside.

The vandalism capped off a rough few months for the driverless car industry.

Even though San Francisco is historically friendly to tech companies,

tension over self-driving

technology had been building after a series of incidents involving driverless vehicles belonging

to Waymo, which is owned by Google Parent Company Alphabet, as well as Cruise, which is majority

owned by General Motors.

As the number of driverless cars on the road increased, so too did the problems.

Just recently, two Waymo cars stalled near the Pride Parade downtown backing up traffic.

This cruise car stalled in the middle of a street in San Francisco.

In June, it was blocking a lane of traffic as emergency vehicles tried to access the scene of a mass shooting in the mission.

But 10 months later, Waymo has come a long way.

Also, do you want to talk about how it shows you your initials so you know which one is your car?

Yeah, okay, so we're pulling up to the Waymo and it's showing my initials, MK,

to let me know that this is indeed our car.

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