LOS ANGELES – A Waymo robotaxi in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Beverly Grove was targeted by a crowd of vandals over the weekend,video shows.
The incident unfolded at around 4 a.m. at the intersection of La Cienega Boulevard and West 3rd Street, with the Los Angeles Police Department telling the L.A. Times that responding officers took a vandalism report but that no arrests were made.
The driverless taxi, which did not have a customer inside at the time, was reportedly stopped at a red light when the crowd surrounded the Jaguar and began vandalizing it.
The passenger front door had been ripped off and was lying on the hood of the vehicle and at least the passenger side front tire had been flattened. All the windows, including the windshield were shattered as well.
Julia Ilina, a spokesperson for Waymo said in a statement that the company was working with police on the investigation and added that “these types of events are rare.”