"Torching the Google car: Why the growing revolt against big tech just escalated."
"Public confidence in self-driving cars has actually been declining as they've rolled out..." "Self-driving cars have been vocally opposed by officials, protested, "coned," attacked, and, now, set ablaze in a carnivalesque display of defiance." "Trust in Silicon Valley in general is eroding, and anger towards the big tech companies -- Waymo is owned by Alphabet, the parent company of Google -- is percolating..."
"Online, the reaction was swift and predictable. The images went viral, naturally -- they were pretty wild! And then came the perfunctory driverless car supporters, deriding the torchers as mindless hoodlums, casting them as backwards-looking people who knew not what they did. As Luddites."
Torching the Google car: Why the growing revolt against big tech just escalated
