Reported Glitch in Waymo Self-Driving Cars Purportedly Triggers Regular All-Night Honking in San Francisco
August 13, 2024
Waymo self-driving cars in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood reportedly began honking at each other late at night, disturbing residents' sleep. The autonomous vehicles, reportedly using a parking lot for ride pauses, triggered honking due to a purported glitch in their algorithms. Despite residents' complaints, the issue allegedly persisted for weeks until Waymo acknowledged the problem and began working on a fix.
- Alleged deployer
- waymo
- Alleged developer
- waymo
- Alleged harmed parties
- south-of-market-residents, south-of-market-businesses, san-francisco-residents, general-public-of-san-francisco
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/794
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