Waymo is a project of Google, whose CEO, Sundar Pichai, attended Donald Trump’s inauguration. And the company’s effort to replace human drivers with robots is a threat to blue-collar jobs — to say nothing of its work on AI and all the societal implications on labor and education that entails.

As protests continue in Los Angeles, immigration arrests have sparked vandalism, leading to President Trump issuing a federal troop intervention.

Driverless cars are in focus for protestors in Los Angeles not because of potential job losses for taxi drivers, but because of their cameras. The protests, which began over the weekend in an apparent response to immigration enforcement actions,