Whamo the Waymo - The Atlanta Waymo Gridlock

True Crimecast

Stove Leg Media

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime, Personal Journals

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

On the morning of May 14, 2026, residents of a quiet northwest Atlanta neighborhood woke up to a bizarre sight: an army of empty, driverless Waymo vehicles invading their cul-de-sacs. Between 6:00 and 7:00 a.m. alone, nearly 50 autonomous cars flooded Battleview Drive, looping endlessly and turning a peaceful suburban morning into a technological traffic jam. We discuss how these repositioning vehicles became obsessed with a single residential area, the safety concerns raised by local parents, and what happens when the algorithms we trust to optimize our streets end up gridlocking them instead.

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0:00.0	Stoveleg Media, Igniting Conversation.
0:12.4	Welcome to trick, time to go.
0:14.1	What can I get for you?
0:16.0	Do you have any idea how long it took me to get in your drive-thru?
0:20.9	I waited 45 minutes for a Reese's hot...
0:24.7	Pull up to the second window and we'll see you next crime.
0:32.1	Welcome to True Crime to Go.
0:33.8	I'm John here with Jamie.
0:34.9	I didn't even get to finish my...
0:36.5	I gotta know what you
0:37.5	were going for. A Reese's hot, what? A Reese's hot fudge Sunday. A hot toddy? No. Man, I tell you,
0:44.9	is there anything worse than sitting in traffic? It's bad. It's real bad. And you've started working
0:52.1	now, like outside of the home and you have to drive, and there's people.
0:57.3	And I do have traffic quite a bit because Kentucky is, I think we should call it the road construction state.
1:04.2	But the traffic that I have to sit in is nothing compared to what these people in this story are dealing with.
1:12.7	You sent this to me.
1:13.8	My wife sent this idea to me.
1:15.6	It's just, this is literally unbelievable and should give us all pause for where we're going as a society.
1:23.2	Yeah, this is absolutely insane.
1:25.1	Jamie, you and I have been in a couple of ubers together, but have you ever
1:29.3	heard of Waymo? I've heard Waymo. I wish I had Waymo money. How about that? Hey, yo.
1:35.0	I have Waymo problems. That's for sure. No, Waymo, it seems like they are basically an Uber,
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