There's some precedent for other unattended things like rental scooters. If it becomes a nuisance for the police, they may choose to ignore self-driving car vandalism.

Scooters are like $150 a piece. These six-figure cars. Doubt that gets ignored.

The solve rate for grand theft auto is almost always the lowest rate across felony crime types, just below other property theft. The highest solve rate is for murder, and LA hovers around 50% for that.

The scooter companies pay $150 a piece? Dang, the retail markup is crazy.

To be frank, especially for anyone who hasn't lived in LA, the LAPD doesn't do anything for the public unless it's something involving guns and/or gangs.

It's not unlike how developers mark most bugs as "won't fix".

I've seen active break-ins and robberies in LA, and called the police only to have nothing being done in those situations. While anecdotal, I'm afraid this is a really common experience that has only gotten worse with COVID-flation.

Nah, breaking a Waymo is property crime against a large corp, and that makes them pay attention; they fall asleep when it's just the general population and small business, but there's backing and funding at stake when capital is attacked. Police departments over the last decade or so of protest have demonstrated willingness to defend Apple stores, Louis Vuitton, etc. They mostly don't succeed at stopping burglaries-in-progress but they do tend to go through camera footage and pick up people after the fact in those incidents.

>I've seen active break-ins and robberies in LA, and called the police only to have nothing being done in those situations.

This is not an LA phenomenon.