A viral clip shows people in San Francisco's Marina District climbing onto Waymo self-driving vehicles and performing flips, drawing a crowd and police response. The incidents reportedly stalled three Waymo cars near Fillmore and Greenwich around 2 a.m., and the vehicles contained no passengers. Observers warned that such behavior trains AI to treat people as hazards and poses severe physical danger if falls occur. Former AI regulator Selika Josiah Talbott emphasized the risks and illegality of the stunts. The San Francisco Police Department reported no arrests or citations so far related to the episode.
The video is making the rounds on Reddit and TikTok, and the follies begin when some fellow in a Steve Young 49ers jersey jumps onto the hood of a Waymo, and does a flip off of it. As Marina District drunks roar with approval, he gallops onto the roof of the Waymo and does a backflip even from there. Two other ne'er-do-wells also climb the Waymo, until police come along to shoo everyone away. And people say that the kids don't drink alcohol anymore!
But AI experts are wagging their fingers at churlish behavior around self-driving cars. "We're teaching artificial intelligence that people are harmful, and that's not what we want," former AI regulator Selika Josiah Talbott told KGO. "It's also still dangerous. The vehicle is still traveling. The car can certainly crush you. The leaps that these kids were doing on top of that car, had it been their head hitting the ground. It's just incredibly dangerous and illegal and we've taken almost a blind eye."
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