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Waymo, the self-driving ride-hailing service owned by Google, moved into Philadelphia for the first time this month, and Philly residents weren’t exactly as receptive to the idea as the company may have hoped.
Traditionally, Philadelphia has taken an adversarial approach to robots and robot-adjacent technology. In 2015, a Philadelphia man destroyed hitchBOT, a robot that was hitchhiking across the United States. The robot had traveled from Boston to Philadelphia before being destroyed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERr2gqqM4i8
Now it appears that Philly residents are ready to...
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