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A minimum of 6 Waymo autonomous automobiles have been vandalized amid anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles

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Last updated: June 10, 2025 6:36 am
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A minimum of six Waymo self-driving automobiles have been broken by the violence happening in Los Angeles in latest days amid protests towards federal immigration raids, based on a consultant for the corporate. 

The autonomous automobiles, in addition to some Lime electrical scooters, have been vandalized, and in some circumstances set on hearth and fully destroyed. Movies of individuals climbing the Waymo robotaxis and bashing within the windshields, in addition to clips of Waymo automobiles engulfed in flames, had been shared extensively on-line, shortly changing into key imagery of the protests in downtown Los Angeles. 

The Los Angeles Police Division warned folks on Sunday to keep away from the world, because of the threat of toxin publicity from electrical batteries catching on hearth. The entire self-driving taxis deployed by Waymo, which is owned by Alphabet, are electrical. “Burning lithium-ion batteries launch poisonous gases, together with hydrogen fluoride, posing dangers to responders and people close by,” the division warned in a social media submit.

No Waymo riders or staff had been harmed through the incidents, and passengers had exited automobiles earlier than they had been vandalized, based on a Waymo spokesman. The corporate stopped service downtown on Monday because the protests continued, although Waymo continued to function within the broader Los Angeles area.

“Out of an abundance of warning given the latest exercise, we eliminated automobiles from Downtown Los Angeles and won’t be serving that particular space of LA in the intervening time,” a Waymo spokesman mentioned in an announcement, noting that the corporate is working with the police division and different authorities to evaluate the state of affairs.

Employees clear up particles after protestors violently burned autonomous Waymo automobiles close to the Metropolis Corridor in Los Angeles, California on June 9, 2025 amid protests over immigration raids.
Tayfun Coskun—Getty Pictures

It’s not clear whether or not protesters determined to particularly goal the Waymo automobiles or the Lime scooters, and it’s potential that the automobiles and scooters had been in an unlucky place because the protests escalated.

The Los Angeles Division referred all inquiries to Waymo and mentioned it didn’t know if any incident stories had been filed presently. Waymo declined to touch upon the entire estimated harm, and Lime declined to remark. Analysts have estimated that the Waymo Jaguar I-Tempo SUVs, that are geared up with radar and lidar gear, value between $150,000 to $200,000 every.

In San Francisco, the place anti-ICE protests have additionally been ongoing, there was one other remoted occasion of a Waymo being vandalized, based on the corporate.

Caught within the crosshairs

Self-driving automobiles have periodically turn into the targets of vandals, with situations of tire slashing or folks throwing fireworks into the automobiles. A pair years in the past, a person with a hatchet chased a number of self-driving Cruise taxis across the streets of San Francisco—generally when there have been passengers inside. 

President Donald Trump ordered the Nationwide Guard to intervene in Los Angeles on Saturday. Protesters clashed with police, dumpsters had been vandalized, and the Los Angeles Police Division shared movies on social media of a retailer being looted. 

By Monday, the protests had calmed, although there was nonetheless a big group of protestors marching downtown.

Waymo, which operates in San Francisco, Phoenix, Los Angeles, and Austin, and is planning to launch in Austin and Miami, is presently the one robotaxi firm within the U.S. providing industrial operations in a number of completely different markets. Tesla is making ready to launch a robotaxi service in Austin this month, though the rollout shall be very restricted with simply 10 to twenty automobiles at first. Waymo mentioned it had surpassed 10 million paid rides close to the top of Might.

This story was initially featured on Fortune.com

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