Waymo’s Speed Bumps 8/15/24
TechCheck
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4.5 • 66 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The era of the roboo taxi may be dawning but residents in one San Francisco |
| 0:07.0 | neighborhood greeting that dawn with some pretty red eyes because dozens of driverless cars were caught just laying on the horn late at night. |
| 0:17.1 | Big deal, we have taxi drivers doing it here. |
| 0:19.2 | Tech Check anchor, Deirdrebosa has the latest. |
| 0:22.2 | I don't mean big deal because honking the horn |
| 0:24.3 | really drives me nuts. No I mean at least you can tell the taxi driver to stop |
| 0:28.2 | honking right you can't really tell a driverless vehicle to stop doing that. |
| 0:31.7 | Contessa file this under things that go honk in the night. |
| 0:35.0 | These are Waymo self-driving cars which are all over the San Francisco roads |
| 0:46.3 | Bay Area roads increasingly at night they must park themselves and in doing so |
| 0:51.3 | this happens they're backing up and honking and keeping residents up at night |
| 0:55.8 | Waimo which is part of alphabet calls this feature useful designed to help avoid low-speed |
| 1:00.5 | collisions by honking if other cars get too close while reversing towards |
| 1:04.8 | them. Raising the question, are they able to hear residents sure do? If this wasn't |
| 1:09.6 | already the most San Francisco story ever guys there is more one resident kept up by the way most ifia tongue |
| 1:16.6 | She started a live blog to keep track of the activity made up of get this a webcam a webcam, a cereal box, and a jam board picked up from the Twitter |
| 1:26.0 | Office auction. A public shared Excel that she set up lets other onlookers track everything |
| 1:31.8 | from the honking |
| 1:32.8 | to cars that become stuck. |
| 1:35.1 | One entry reads, car has a mental breakdown, |
| 1:38.0 | looped erratically, stopped repeatedly with hazards on. |
| 1:41.3 | Now, Weimo tells us that they have fixed the issue through a software |
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