https://www.siliconvalley.com/2025/01/02/new-orleans-attack-oakland-san-jose-christmas-in-the-park-vehicle-truck-san-francisco/

Some Bay Area event planners have long feared the type of horror that befell New Orleans’ Bourbon Street in the first few hours of 2025 when a U.S. Army veteran used a pickup truck as a battering ram to kill more than a dozen people and maim even more, using one of the most basic tools of transportation.

One reason: Such attacks, repurposing as a weapon one of the millions of vehicles that are on the roads every day, are so difficult to stop.