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Self-driving Waymos trying to self-park keep neighborhood awake with endlessly honking
The driverless vehicles, made by the California-based company Waymo, began to appear in a lot near Ms. Tung’s apartment building in late July. Waymo had rented it for the cars to idle in when they weren’t making trips or charging. But because the vehicles are programmed to honk when nearing other vehicles and then change directions, the more crowded the lot became, the more honks erupted.
Mr. Pofsky said the honking noise happens “like every four seconds and continues and continues.” On Tuesday morning, he heard the honking start around 5 a.m. He said he lay awake when the honking started, feeling “in disbelief of what is actually happening.” Ms. Tung said that much of the noise happened around 2 a.m., when the cars left, and around 4:30 a.m. when they returned. “I assume that’s sort of like a peak downtime,” she said. “But, you know, it also happens to be my peak sleep time.”
Self-driving Waymo cars keep SF residents awake all night by honking at each other
Silicon Valley’s latest disruption? Your sleep schedule. On Saturday, NBC Bay Area reported that San Francisco’s South of Market residents are being awakened throughout the night by Waymo self-driving cars honking at each other in a parking lot. No one is inside the cars, and they appear to be automatically reacting to each other’s presence.
Self-driving Waymo cars keep SF residents awake all night by honking at each other
weeks after debuting rides to the entire public, Waymo robotaxis in San Francisco have started honking excessively, too — except they’re not doing it on the streets, but while trying to navigate the complicated terrain that is a local parking lot.
Just ask the bleary-eyed people who live right next to the ruckus, like Randol White, a resident of San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood, who complains that the rowdy robotaxis have been making noise around the clock. He’s been woken up in the middle of the night multiple times by the self-driving cars, he claims, and on one occasion, at 4 am. “At first I actually found it really funny, these cars are honking at each other,” White told the Los Angeles Times. “I don’t find it funny anymore.”
And neither do his neighbors. “Over the past two weeks I’ve been woken up more times overnight than I have combined over 20 years,” Russell Pofsky, who lives in a building next to White, told ABC7 News.
