Read previewOver a dozen of Waymo's self-driving cars were vandalized in San Francisco. San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced Thursday that 36-year-old Ronaile Joshua Burton has been charged with 17 counts of vandalism on Waymo self-driving vehicles. AdvertisementThe arrest follows other reported incidents of vandalism against Waymo's self-driving cars in the last year. Waymo Vehicle surrounded and then graffiti’d, windows were broken, and firework lit on fire inside the vehicle which ultimately caught the entire vehicle on fire. San Francisco is one of the main test beds for self-driving tech, and incidents involving the vehicles — as well as traditional human-driven cars — are bound to come up.

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Persons: —, Brooke Jenkins, Joshua Burton, Burton, Adam Birka, Ms, White, Waymo, Séraphine Hossenlopp, Tesla, Zoox, Cruise, Insider's Lloyd Lee Organizations: Service, San, Business, Prosecutors, FRANCISCO FIRE DEPARTMENT, London Breed, Reuters, General Motors Locations: San Francisco, Chinatown