Tuesday's rally cry among teamsters, labor leaders and allies was that self-driving cars aren't safe and eliminating drivers eliminates jobs.
Protestors gathered outside Google's Venice headquarters Tuesday morning to denounce autonomous vehicles, chanting, and carrying signs that read 'No Drivers, No Peace,' and 'Waymo, Hell No!' As Waymo One's robotaxi service publicly launched in the Los Angeles area in October, Tuesday's protest coincides with the release of a Q3 2023 earnings report by Alphabet, Inc., the owner of Waymo and Google's parent company.
'Homelessness is a huge issue here in Los Angeles and you're going to tell me you're going to get rid of jobs and not have an answer or strategy behind that? Their strategy is to make profit over the people that have elected them, and it's really that simple,' Dougherty said. Waymo began mapping Los Angeles with human drivers in 2019 and last year in Santa Monica, it was testing self-driving vehicles with safety drivers, human back-ups on board.
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