Sophia Tung has been livestreaming the movement of robotaxis on her YouTube channel as they fill up the parking spaces at around 4 a.m. local time.
Waymo’s autonomous robotaxis have become a nightmare for San Francisco residents — with their sleep being disrupted by the vehicles’ blaring horns for as much as an hour before the crack of dawn.
“The entire night I was hearing the boop boop boop of waymos backing up and pulling in/out,” she wrote on Threads.In a subsequent post on Threads, Tung wrote: “Now there is a traffic jam. They’re all honking at each other and getting a bit aggressive. Attendant has no idea what to do.”Waymo vehicles are honking their horns in the wee hours of the morning, keeping San Francisco residents awake, according to one frustrated social media user.
The video captured one of the cars honking its horn while waiting to park behind another vehicle that was driving in reverse.that Waymo vehicles that are finished for the day “start migrating back” to the parking lot between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. local time Sunday through Thursday or 11 p.m. through midnight on Fridays and Saturdays.A Waymo spokesperson told The Verge that the company is “aware that in some scenarios our vehicles may briefly honk while navigating our parking lots.
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