Waymo is suing people who allegedly smashed and slashed its robotaxis

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The people of San Francisco haven’t always been kind to Waymo’s growing fleet of driverless taxis. The autonomous vehicles, which provide tens of thousands of rides each week, have been torched, stomped on, and verbally berated in recent months. Now Waymo is striking back—in the courts.

This month, the Silicon Valley company filed a pair of lawsuits, neither of which have been previously reported, that demand hundreds...