<https://thebulletin.org/2019/01/road-rage-against-the-self-driving-machine/> You can usually expect the police blotter on New Year’s Day to offer some choice nuggets from the previous evening’s events. But this year the New York Times took it to another level, kicking off 2019 with a front-page story on a whole new category of crime: harassment of autonomous vehicles. Drawing on 21 police reports first detailed by the Arizona Republic last month, Simon Romero describes how enraged citizens of Chandler, Arizona are facing off against the self-driving cars that Google subsidiary Waymo has been testing around the United States. Averaging 25,000 driverless miles on Arizona roads alone every day, the company has made serious enemies of some city residents. Worried about safety and job security, or maybe just the unsettling new reality they represent, the most agitated Arizonans are doing everything they can to scare the cars away: slashing tires, pelting them with rocks, following them around and cutting them off in their own SUVs. [...]