Vandalising cars or causing threats of violence should never be condoned, but their still is something very wrong in the way tech companies encroach on the lives of people unwillingly.
>“They didn’t ask us if we wanted to be part of their beta test,” added his wife, who helps run the business.
The woman in the article is correct in my opinion. It ought to be up to the people of Arizona to decide what happens on Arizona's streets, not to a company from California, because it's the people of Arizona that are the receiving end of all the social, economic, and safety implications of this technology.
We have had this trend of tech companies creating facts and asking democratic permission afterwards a few times now in the world of social media apps, but now with autonomous driving things are getting a little more physical.