Neighbors say Waymo cars honking again overnight in San Francisco

San Francisco residents say Waymo driverless cars are yet again keeping them up at night with repeated honking. This comes after Waymo issued several fixes this past week.
Story shot and edited on 8-18-2024 by photojournalist Marco Vargas.

[@austinfarley4971]

I feel like the answer from a software perspective is simple. If the cars are in this parking lot, don't honk.
But I'm not a software engineer. So i'm likely wrong.

[@albertwang5974]

It depends on their software architecture, if there is a hook to allow middleware to do control, yes, that's an easy thing to do!

[@velenceigabor1418]

Totally understand the confusion.
These poor robots are forced to park like humans would.

[@ricklarsen7477]

Instinctively the robots have found a superior way to park, but are chained by their grotesque overlords.

[@MikodoHizo]

They're just talking shit to each other

[@gedstrom]

Who is the idiot that thought that driver-less vehicles were a good idea?

[@charleshultquist9233]

I'm trying to understand the mind of my robot mower....it's inscrutable!

[@bobsch-gd6ze]

It's the waymo way..

[@rirkc]

It's begun.

[@MichaelGGarry]

It staggers me that the cars can't identify to each other than they are AI and not human, so no need to honk......

[@rockets4kids]

Welcome to our AI future.

[@kuatojones6950]

Still better than people. People would be shooting and fighting each other. If you cant handle honking move to the countryside.

[@jimmercer2581]

Skynet has come home ! ! !

[@will9134]

Sofia or Steven?

[@rtee3680]

Why does it matter?