Group of Waymos Get Confused, Clog Up San Francisco Street

“A Waymo standoff.”

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In San Francisco, Google’s Waymo’s driverless taxis are as soon as once more inflicting way-mo issues than anticipated.

In a video posted to TikTok, a bemused onlooker paperwork one of the company’s Jaguar I-Paces because it causes an autonomous pileup within the metropolis’s notoriously traffic-riddled streets.

“The Waymo is caught as a result of the Waymo is attempting to go behind the Amazon [truck],” the bystander explains, “however then it is caught behind the Waymo, and oh, my god, there’s one other Waymo!”

Certainly, because the 35-second clip reveals, an Amazon truck acquired trapped between 4 of the white Waymo vehicles. As explicated by the person behind the video, who goes by the deal with romokris, there ended up being a 19-car pileup ensuing from the mishap.

“What’s everyone gonna do?” romokris continues whereas cracking up. “It’s a Waymo standoff! What’s gonna occur? Who’s successful? [cackles]”

Fortunately, one other of the driverless taxis reveals as much as apparently save the day and shepherd its fellow Waymos again to secure harbor.

“That Waymo got here via, woo hoo!” the onlooker declares. “Yay!”

Honk Shoo

This isn’t the primary time Waymos have gone haywire within the metropolis by the bay.

Quickly after debuting in SF, a bunch of the company’s cars started honking at each other, for some purpose, when attempting to navigate a selected car parking zone.

The obvious Waymo glitch grew to become such a nuisance that residents of the neighborhood the place the honking passed off stated the noise was waking them up at evening.

“Over the previous two weeks, I have been woken up extra occasions in a single day than I’ve mixed over 20 years,” defined disgruntled San Franciscan Russell Pofsky in an interview with the local ABC7 news station.

Video footage of the Waymo convention in the South of Market parking deck confirmed simply how weird and cacophonous the issue was because the robotaxis tried and didn’t maneuver round one another, honking their obvious displeasure at one another all of the whereas.

Now it appears like Waymos have brought about but extra commotion within the streets of San Francisco.

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