{"id":147081,"date":"2026-01-24T00:29:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T00:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/147081\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T00:29:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T00:29:16","slug":"san-francisco-mob-destroys-waymo-self-driving-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/147081\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco mob destroys Waymo self-driving car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Viral video shows a violent mob stomping and smashing a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/11\/us-news\/waymo-rider-flees-when-self-driving-car-gets-stuck-on-tracks-near-oncoming-train\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">self-driving Waymo car<\/a> on the streets of San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>The clip, which has racked up millions of views on social media,\u00a0captured vandals climbing onto the vehicle and repeatedly kicking it while others joined in.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38266870\" width=\"456\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/video-shows-violent-mob-destroying-119532564.jpg\" alt=\"A mob destroying a Waymo self-driving car in San Francisco.\" class=\"wp-image-38266870\" style=\"width:506px;height:auto;aspect-ratio:0.77246094;display:block\"  \/>The mob got on top of the self-driving car and smashed the windshield.<\/p>\n<p>One person is seen breaking through the vehicle\u2019s windshield, as others join in to thrash it even more.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred just after 11 p.m. on January 18 at the corner of Harrison and Main streets, police and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/03\/business\/waymo-self-driving-cars-make-illegal-u-turns-zigzag-through-tunnels\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Waymo<\/a> confirmed to The Post. The company said there was no one in the vehicle during the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The San Francisco Police Department said the investigation remains an open and no arrests have been made. Cops found the vehicle empty and destroyed when they arrived.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe condemn any form of vandalism to property and are working closely with local safety officials,\u201d a Waymo spokesperson told The Post. \u201cWe take them extremely seriously and remain committed to improving road safety and mobility in the cities where we operate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Viral video shows a violent mob stomping and smashing a self-driving Waymo car on the streets of San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[7,101,103,102,49160,104,106,105,3586],"class_list":{"0":"post-147081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-san-francisco","10":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","11":"tag-san-francisco-news","12":"tag-self-driving-vehicles","13":"tag-sf","14":"tag-sf-headlines","15":"tag-sf-news","16":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}