Waymo car swarmed by skaters in San Francisco 'hill bomb' • Hacker News Board

Re: Waymo car swarmed by skaters in San Francisco 'hill bomb'

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Post by InitialLastName » Wed, Jul 13, 2022, 2:29 AM UTC

la64710 wrote: post #23

roflchoppa wrote: post #7

Skating hills is tough. The last time I skated SF we went from Colma all the way down into Market then up to the POFA. Great times, def exhausting… hats off to the kids keeping that dream alive.

Yes but please don’t wreck innocent peoples property and life with your dreams. Be a human!

> and life

The only sign I see of anybody getting injured (much less killed) here is a skateboarder, which seems to me to be a self-imposed risk. Did I miss some innocent people getting hurt somewhere?

Re: Waymo car swarmed by skaters in San Francisco 'hill bomb'

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Post by notmyfun » Wed, Jul 13, 2022, 2:34 AM UTC

WalterBright wrote: post #29

When I was in high school, the local teens would gather every Friday night on a certain commercial street downtown, and would drag race from light to light. Of course it was illegal, but the cops had a quiet understanding that as long as it was just that section of road, they wouldn't interfere. It was great fun. Not only were kids drag racing their cars, a lot more were showing off their cars, hanging out at the dri…

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Re: Waymo car swarmed by skaters in San Francisco 'hill bomb'

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Post by jakebebdj » Wed, Jul 13, 2022, 2:37 AM UTC

mullingitover wrote: post #38

Oof, these poor kids. I can't imagine what's going to happen to them financially, but I feel like doing a lot of property damage to a vehicle that's bristling with high resolution cameras, in the age of easy facial recognition, is going to have consequences. Maybe they're just so privileged that their default expectation is that their parents will bail them out of anything, and maybe they're right.

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Re: Waymo car swarmed by skaters in San Francisco 'hill bomb'

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Post by AirMax98 » Wed, Jul 13, 2022, 2:40 AM UTC

The way we build cities around the car in the USA is kind of a blight, so I can't help but be somewhat relieved to see that other people look at these Waymo cars, with all that they stand for, as worthy of ridicule.

Re: Waymo car swarmed by skaters in San Francisco 'hill bomb'

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jul 13, 2022, 2:58 AM UTC

InitialLastName wrote: post #51

la64710 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes but please don’t wreck innocent peoples property and life with your dreams. Be a human!

> and life The only sign I see of anybody getting injured (much less killed) here is a skateboarder, which seems to me to be a self-imposed risk. Did I miss some innocent people getting hurt somewhere?

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Re: Waymo car swarmed by skaters in San Francisco 'hill bomb'

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Post by thatswrong0 » Wed, Jul 13, 2022, 3:07 AM UTC

jeffbee wrote: post #12

Not that I think jumping on the top of someone's car is obviously justified, but I am honestly curious how the car got to this point. Wouldn't it have had to drive past hundreds of people into what was obviously a large gathering to get here?

I was actually there for this event (just as a spectator): most of the people were gathered down at the intersection. The car came down the hill, and then it slowed down as it approaching the intersection because there were.. obviously a ton of people in the intersection. _Then_ everyone swarmed the car / surrounded it / jumped on it / tagged it. It basically didn't move while this was happening. Then eventually the crowd let it through.

Re: Waymo car swarmed by skaters in San Francisco 'hill bomb'

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Post by Gigachad » Wed, Jul 13, 2022, 3:09 AM UTC

AirMax98 wrote: post #54

The way we build cities around the car in the USA is kind of a blight, so I can't help but be somewhat relieved to see that other people look at these Waymo cars, with all that they stand for, as worthy of ridicule.

When car tech gets good enough to avoid almost all incidents with people, something drastic is going to happen. Naturally everyone will just step out on the road causing the cars to stop. So either driving through a city will become a situation you avoid if at all possible, or governments install fences and barriers everywhere and make walking without right of way a serious crime.

Re: Waymo car swarmed by skaters in San Francisco 'hill bomb'

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Post by brian-armstrong » Wed, Jul 13, 2022, 3:10 AM UTC

This article's a nothing burger. Saved you a click!

Re: Waymo car swarmed by skaters in San Francisco 'hill bomb'

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Post by thepasswordis » Wed, Jul 13, 2022, 3:14 AM UTC

Where's the "hill bomb"? https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf2FPFsPZeD/

This is a bunch of kids swarming a car and dancing on top of it. None of them even look like they have skateboards with them.

Re: Waymo car swarmed by skaters in San Francisco 'hill bomb'

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Post by skavi » Wed, Jul 13, 2022, 3:20 AM UTC

throwaway_4ever wrote: post #8

bko wrote: post #4

Watching videos of this event reminds me of a comedian's bit where he talks about watching Rocky when he was young versus today. When he was young, he would cheer Rocky on while eating those raw eggs. When he watched it when he was older he thought about how hard it would be to get those egg stains off his sweatshirt. I guess that's all to say that I am of the age where I see a bunch of young men shutting down a stre…

In an age where people are as lonely and isolated as ever and rightly complain about the ubiquity of car-based transportation, here is a group that has built an actual community around practically carbon-free transportation. Though, yes, even as a skateboarder I don't condone the hill-bombing as it is legitimately too dangerous.

Skateboarding culture is really stupid about safety gear. If they wore the same stuff longboarders wore when going down big slopes, the sport wouldn’t be nearly as dangerous.