A crowd of other people broken a self-driving Waymo car in Los Angeles’ Beverly Grove group early Saturday, police mentioned.

Police won a decision reporting a gaggle vandalizing the robotaxi close to Los angeles Cienega Side road and West third Side road round 4 a.m., mentioned J. Chavez, public knowledge officer with the Los Angeles Police Division. Officials took a vandalism record, he mentioned.

The unoccupied car had reportedly stopped at a purple mild when it was once surrounded. No accidents had been reported and no arrests had been made.

Waymo spokeswoman Julia Ilina mentioned the corporate was once operating carefully with officers investigating the incident. “Whilst those kinds of occasions are uncommon, we take them extraordinarily severely and stay dedicated to making improvements to highway protection and mobility within the towns the place we function,” she mentioned in a remark.

Video posted on-line confirmed a person kicking the aspect of the white Jaguar whilst any other guy in a ski masks stood on its roof. The entrance passenger aspect door were torn off, the windshield and home windows had been shattered and a minimum of one tire was once flattened.

Some studies indicated the incident happened at a side road takeover, however Chavez mentioned police had recovered no proof of a takeover.

Final 12 months, a crowd in San Francisco’s Chinatown surrounded a Waymo automobile, vandalized it after which set it ablaze.