{"id":1059,"date":"2024-08-26T07:17:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T07:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2024-08-17T03:57:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T03:57:53","slug":"robotaxis-trying-to-park-keep-neighborhood-awake-with-endless-honking-at-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/robotaxis-trying-to-park-keep-neighborhood-awake-with-endless-honking-at-each-other\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-driving Waymos trying to self-park keep neighborhood awake with endlessly honking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Residents in San Francisco neighborhood say repeated Waymo honking is keeping them up at night\" width=\"1260\" height=\"709\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WGwVnVr9y2Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>(quote)<br><br>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/14\/us\/waymo-robotaxi-parking-lot-honking.html\">Endless Honking of Waymo\u2019s Driverless Taxis Wakes a Neighborhood<\/a><br>\nIn late July, Waymo rented a parking lot outside two San Francisco apartment buildings for its vehicles to idle in. Then came the noise.<br><br>\n\nThe driverless vehicles, made by the California-based company Waymo, began to appear in a lot near Ms. Tung\u2019s apartment building in late July. Waymo had rented it for the cars to idle in when they weren\u2019t 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.<br><br>\n\nMr. Pofsky said the honking noise happens \u201clike every four seconds and continues and continues.\u201d On Tuesday morning, he heard the honking start around 5 a.m. He said he lay awake when the honking started, feeling \u201cin disbelief of what is actually happening.\u201d 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. \u201cI assume that\u2019s sort of like a peak downtime,\u201d she said. \u201cBut, you know, it also happens to be my peak sleep time.\u201d<br><br>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2024\/08\/self-driving-waymo-cars-keep-sf-residents-awake-all-night-by-honking-at-each-other\/\">Self-driving Waymo cars keep SF residents awake all night by honking at each other<\/a><br>\nSilicon Valley&#8217;s latest disruption? Your sleep schedule. On Saturday, NBC Bay Area reported that San Francisco&#8217;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&#8217;s presence.<br><br>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/robotaxis-gather-honk-all-night\">Self-driving Waymo cars keep SF residents awake all night by honking at each other<\/a><br>\nweeks after debuting rides to the entire public, Waymo robotaxis in San Francisco have started honking excessively, too \u2014 except they&#8217;re not doing it on the streets, but while trying to navigate the complicated terrain that is a local parking lot.<br><br>\n\nJust ask the bleary-eyed people who live right next to the ruckus, like Randol White, a resident of San Francisco&#8217;s South of Market neighborhood, who complains that the rowdy robotaxis have been making noise around the clock. He&#8217;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. &#8220;At first I actually found it really funny, these cars are honking at each other,&#8221; White told the Los Angeles Times. &#8220;I don&#8217;t find it funny anymore.&#8221;<br><br>\n\nAnd neither do his neighbors. &#8220;Over the past two weeks I&#8217;ve been woken up more times overnight than I have combined over 20 years,&#8221; Russell Pofsky, who lives in a building next to White, told ABC7 News.<br><br>\n\n(unquote)<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(quote) Endless Honking of Waymo\u2019s Driverless Taxis Wakes a Neighborhood In late July, Waymo rented a parking lot outside two San Francisco apartment buildings for its vehicles to idle in. Then came the noise. The driverless vehicles, made by the California-based company Waymo, began to appear in a lot near<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/robotaxis-trying-to-park-keep-neighborhood-awake-with-endless-honking-at-each-other\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,11,12],"tags":[100,71,21,59,42,35,41,32,114,76],"class_list":["entry","author-wcp-humor","post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-funny-bone","category-life-nature-society","category-science-and-technology","category-us-and-world","tag-ai","tag-automotive","tag-business","tag-health","tag-humor","tag-news","tag-society","tag-technology","tag-transportation","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}