India, Feb. 12 -- Vandals set ablaze a driverless car operated by Waymo, the autonomous driving unit of Alphabet Inc., (GOOG), on Saturday evening in Chinatown, the San Francisco police department said.

"At approximately 9pm on Saturday, 10 February, a fully autonomous Waymo vehicle was navigating on Jackson Street in San Francisco when a crowd surrounded and vandalised the vehicle, breaking the window and throwing a firework inside, which set the vehicle on fire," a spokesperson of the company said.

The police said that around 10 to 15 members were involved in the incident. However, no arrests had been made as of Sunday.

The spokesperson for the Mountain View-based company stated that, "The vehicle was not transporting any riders and no...