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By Jeremiah Hassel It was the perfect heist — or so Vincent Maurice Jones thought. It wasn’t like there was anyone to stop him. But there were lots of factors the 33-year-old didn’t consider, and that’s how he got caught. Jones was charged with attempted grand theft auto after he reportedly failed to steal a self-driving taxi that had given him a ride in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday night. NBC News reported that Jones got into a Waymo car, which is a fully autonomous vehicle that serves as a taxi, around 10:30pm local time that night near Main Street, just north of 1st Street near City Hal…

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