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It’s not yet known whether Waymo vehicles were deliberately targeted. This year the LAPD revealed it had obtained footage from a Waymo driverless car as part of an investigation, indicating that they are being used as potential sources of surveillance footage. Waymo has been contacted for comment.

Alternatively (and this would be a very bad idea for anyone not interested in going to prison), what if people called for a pickup and set them on fire when they arrived? Waymo should be able to figure that out pretty easily though.

That's what they were doing, which is why Waymo has suspended the app in that area.