Arson can also cause an electric vehicle to catch fire.
The myth about the unsurpassed meaninglessness and mercilessness of the Russian New Year is ready to be refuted by a publication on the pages of the 9to5Google resource, which talks about the consequences of celebrating the New Year according to the Chinese lunar calendar in San Francisco. Since tradition tells its keepers to actively use fireworks, last weekend a certain group of vandals decided to combine the celebration with the arson of one of the prototypes of the Waymo robotic taxi, which at that moment was driving along the road blocked by the participants in the incident.
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Having blocked the path of a Jaguar electric car, which was moving without passengers and a driver in the cabin under automatic control, a group of unknown people began to paint body panels from aerosol cans. One of the rioters then jumped on the hood of the car and smashed the windshield with a skateboard. Since all this was accompanied by the launch of fireworks, one of them naturally ended up inside the cabin, after which in less than a minute the electric car caught fire as a result of arson. Judging by the video footage, the car’s roof, side pillars and part of the door panels were burned out.