Yet another Waymo robot stuck w hazard lights on at a flashing stop light, prob telops assisted to go through: Monterey Blvd at Diamond & 280 (Glenn Park BART Station), San Francisco The ramp to the right goes over 280 to San Jose Ave. OP: tiktok.chuckylittle07

Another Waymo robot failed to handle a traffic light outage, stopping in the intersection of: Olympic & Western, Koreatown, Los Angeles OP: tiktok.travelrush360 Meanwhile, ppl are still writing nonsense re these failures, eg: "Waymo’s biggest error here may have been to not know this was coming"

A Waymo robot blocked a light rail train before & after turning: Jefferson onto Taylor (Fisherman's Wharf), SF Another Waymo robot illegally stopped in the No Stopping Anytime zone on Taylor kept it from clearing the intersection. "the train conductor looked so done" OP: tiktok.anjaniforpresident

A Waymo robot struggled in the Costco parking lot in the very heart of Silicon Valley, sow reap: 150 Lawrence Station Rd, Sunnyvale, CA The sequence of stuck robot, long (>minute) pause, unstuck robot almost certainly means telops was in the loop from pause to unstuck. OP: tiktok.florodan

Another city, another Waymo robot unable to handle a traffic light outage, the day after Waymo's epic SF traffic light failure: SW 27th Ave at SW 23rd St, Miami Miami drivers prob aren't as used to this as SF, AZ, LA, Austin, & Atlanta drivers. Who/what is training whom? OP: tiktok.robinhoodirl

"waiting in the jellycat line and this waymo hits the truck" OP: tiktok.smookiesodapop and then drives away. LA area. Another Waymo robot hit and run, reportedly. If so, Waymo's redacted NHTSA crash report should be publicly avail ~mid-February. Why do Waymo robots leave/flee their crashes?

Prob within minutes of the PG&E power outage, Waymo's fleet in the outage area collapsed from ~normal to however many telops could assist through traffic lights, w remainder queued for telops. Even w ~perfect/99.99% telops help, collapse happens without enough of them, which is prob uneconomical.

At least 2 Waymo robots got stuck due to forecast flooding in San Francisco, this one w a safety driver: Geary at Fillmore, San Francisco Notice the human drivers adapted and learned in realtime from each other, unlike the World's Most Stuck Robot. OP: reddit.oochiewallyWallyserb

First video I've seen of a Zoox undrivable robot stuck at a traffic light outage. It combined w two stuck Waymo robots to block all north (Waymo) & south (Zoox) bound lanes: 11th at Howard, San Francisco The future of Automated Immobility is already here, just not evenly distributed. OP: hrothmar

This is ADAS tech, not ADS. Every vehicle can and should have sufficient collision avoidance tech to handle this, regardless of whether the vehicle is driven by a human or a robot/automation. Waymo demonstrates the amount of sensor + cpu required for low speed VRU ADAS safety is less than for ADS.

A reporter saw their Waymo robot disobey a school crossing guard (pic2) and was trapped inside when a Waymo robot's doors failed to open at drop off until telops assisted (pic1), Google translated. Waymo robots often drive when unobstructed though illegal. Original: www.mk.co.kr/news/it/1158...

Waymo shutdown in the Bay Area, again. Fragility as an automated service. The UberLyft ridehail explosion was partly inspired by the notorious difficulty getting a taxi in SF when rain spiked demand. Uber solved that problem w flexible/gig supply. Waymo has unsolved it w acutely unreliable supply.

Tis the season for PG&E substation fires, this one in Saratoga. Most US wall power is ~3 nines reliable (99.9%). 4 nines is avail in some places. If you want better usually need an independent backup. PG&E is more of an industry leader in liability than reliability. www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

A Waymo robot hesitated during an unprotected turn, maybe losing its slot: Palo Alto onto Glendale Blvd, LA Obstructed view made it creep out ~appropriately. Didn't seem to understand/trust the driver who stopped for it. No eye contact or shared understanding. OP: tiktok.rodolfodorantesoficial

AV/ADS mfg tradition of quick fixes being more quick than fix remains unblemished. "Traffic lights at Congress and 3rd were all red and didn’t change. Waymos stuck while other cars did the appropriate “treat them as a stop sign”. Got very chaotic about five minutes later" OP: reddit.Old_Flan_6548

NHTSA is looking into a consumer complaint about the mechanical door release on their Tesla Model 3. ppl who know much more about this than I do believe these mechanical releases should be more obvious/accessible in some Tesla models and their not being has contributed to fatalities.

An empty undrivable Zoox robot lingered in a right lane that gets lots of right turns for so/too long it got hit when it went: Bryant & 6th St, SF Pro tip, don't use the right lane on 5 lane wide Bryant at 6th to go straight, leave it to the usually multiple right turning vehicles. Lotta peds too.

Waymo being Waymo in Silicon Valley, sow reap: Monroe St at Forest Ave, San Jose, CA Valley Fair Mall is across the street. Waymo is currently quoting ~3 hours to get there from the SF Caltrain Station via non-fwy route, $132. Google maps says 51 min via 101 by car. OP: tiktok.veryhungrystraycat

Almost a relief to see Waymo robots back to normal ops, eg making illegal turns: Mission onto 8th St, San Francisco The burned PG&E substation is on the far right corner. Waymo robots are an AV form of ridehail, not taxi. SF gov regulates taxi and can cap their numbers. OP: tiktok.sanfrancisco4k

Waymo robots do not handle floods much better than traffic light outages, based on Waymo's failures during the rains in Arizona in September and previously in Austin. Hopefully, the two will not meet. ~0.75 inch of rain & ~0.2 inch/hr forecast in Waymo's LA geo today. Good luck LA.

Waymo saying they'll turn aggro up to 'decisive' to reduce telops workload is prob gonna have some unpleasant side effects akin to their rash of illegal driving, eg around school kids & buses. 7k ok & ~0.2 k not < two nines reliable == garbage do you feel waymo lucky? waymo.com/blog/2025/12...

Waymo being Waymo: Powell and Geary, Union Sq, San Francisco The Geary bus line caries more passengers than all the Waymo robots in San Francisco, at least when they can get past all the stuck Waymo robots in San Francisco.

Stuck Waymo robot(s) hindered SFFD from getting to the PG&E substation fire, according to Sup Mahmood who is calling for hearings re PG&E and Waymo. Waymo has confirmed telops partially failed during this emergency (pic2). Map of >30 stuck Waymo locations called into 311 (pic1). archive.ph/OviuH

“Waymo should have seen this coming — there’s no excuse. We just had what amounts to a dress rehearsal for an earthquake and Waymo failed the test.” Prof Phil Koopman Yup, as long predicted. They need stricter regulation and performance/test based fleet caps. www.mercurynews.com/2025/12/22/w...

I looked at this work recently and past on posting mostly bc the sampling method is unsound and almost sure to undercount systematically, ie prob measuring trends better than absolute values. Tesla's scale is so small they prob have a human dispatcher overseeing it like their weird in-car monitor.

What Ken says in his thread, plus Prof Cummings has exceptional and exceptionally relevant experience/expertise spanning real-world remote ops of ~autonomous vehicles w life & death consequences, original research in vehicle automation systems, inside/NHTSA industry knowledge/understanding, & more.

Zoox recalled their fleet (SUVs & undrivable robots) after 62 incidents of mistakenly crossing double yellow lines into oncoming traffic. Root causes: "mislabeled double parked vehicles, unexpected routing changes, and poorly executed attempts to avoid blocking cross traffic in intersections"

Waymo is suing Santa Monica. ~month ago, Santa Monica City Council voted unanimously (6-0) to ban Waymo from operating, charging, or cleaning their robots between 11 pm and 6 am at a pair of lots. Waymo is operating in defiance of demands by gov officials in 3 states, though not their regulators.

"the waymo of people" has entered the lexicon

“San Franciscans deserve answers into why Waymo was unable to handle such a large-scale infrastructure failure, and what they plan to do about it in the future to mitigate these types of impacts,” Sup Mahmood SFBOS may get Waymo to do better. Across the street from City Hall, CPUC can make Waymo.

4 Waymo robots & a car clog a SoMa back road: 100 block of Bluxome St (between 5th & 6th), San Francisco Rarely a reason to be on this block. Maybe Waymo's testing/practicing. Around the corner at 5th & Brannan was one of the recent roboclots at a traffic light outage. OP: tiktok.juniorhidalgo21

“the sheer scale of the outage led to instances where vehicles remained stationary longer than usual to confirm the state of the affected intersections” Waymo Waymo robots apparently depend on telops to "confirm state" of traffic light outages. Waymo understaffs telops for predictable emergencies.

"Using AI and machine learning, we are pre-positioning crews to be in the correct locations to help restore power swiftly and safely in case of any outages that may occur from these storms" PG&E Possible explanation for why it is taking so/too long in SF. Anyway, Monday 2 pm estimated completion.

Waymo's public stmt in the article is essentially their usual: 'no matter how badly we do the same bad thing we have been doing for years without noticeable improvement, we are committed to doing it badly better' Growth over public safety. Those $100 Billion valuations don't grow on bug fixes.

Waymo has resumed or is resuming service in San Francisco, at least to the level of saying "pausing requests" instead "service paused" which may seem like the same thing in practice, but maybe a few rides got booked. Only Waymo knows. Prob will have a very diminished fleet tonight.

PG&E is having a massive outage in San Francisco. Waymo robots aren't handling the traffic light outages well. Cell service is also out is some places. No surprise as Waymo robots & cell have repeatedly failed during power outages. CPUC regulates both Waymo and PG&E (Profit Greed & Explosions).

Another Waymo robot curb hit. There have been several recently, inc some bad enough to required towing: Adams St at Central, Phoenix, AZ So much for mm precision lidar w cm accurate maps. FWIW, that bulb out has had many curb hits and now has at least one from a robot. OP: tiktok.dominikanbeba

Waymo has apparently routed around some challenging pavements and road conditions in other geos. IDK if it is bc of sensor issues or more generally being extra to over cautious. St Louis may present greater challenges. Snow, salt, and slow/no repair are all worse for robot than human drivers.

Good article on the history of San Francisco's pedestrian bridge over Kearny at Portsmouth Square, aka China Banks, as a testament to skateboarders exploits, Chinatown residents determination, and SF gov's glacial pace fixing glaring though well-intentioned mistakes. www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

"Waymo stopped in a tunnel, blocked a city bus, and refused to move" OP: reddit.pedroah Tunnel under the Golden Gate Bridge Admin Building and Toll Plaza at Cranston Road, Presidio, San Francisco This is <400 ft from where a Waymo robot stopped on 101 10/25/2025, contributing to a horrific crash.

"Oh my God" OP: tiktok.beccajanae N Interstate 35 Frontage Rd at Willow, Austin, TX Waymo's sensors are good, but even they can't see through a semi. I can't tell if it had a passenger. 2 blocks over on Cesar Chavez it could've made this right turn w benefit of the traffic light shown in video.

TFW you have to chase your robot. The robot prob didn't recognize OP as its customer & was trying to get out of OP's way. Notice how badly it backs up. Starship launched in UK in 2018 and has the most wee sidewalk delivery robots in EU, prob in US too, and maybe the world. OP: tiktok.jayspeaks25

FWIW, there are multiple eyewitness reports of this behavior almost every day from across Waymo's uncrewed geos. I don't even bother to post most of the videos of it. Just routine Waymo behavior that began years ago and has only become more frequent as they have never been punished for it.

ICYMI Waymo robot w passenger stopped on a fwy where 3 lanes of traffic merge just before a bridge. 5th vehicle going around it crashed w a pickup truck which smashed through the bridge barrier and onto the road below. Waymo's robots aren't safe on fwys bc they stop in lane for no good reason.

Another Waymo robot forced its way across traffic to make a turn: W Jefferson St at 3rd Ave, Phoenix Location surrounded by the main city & county gov offices. "Waymoing" and "Waymoed" have entered the lexicon for Scofflaw as an in your face automated service. OP: tiktok.budgetbrothersbodyshop

A Waymo robot w passenger stopped for no good/apparent reason in the right lane of 101 just south of the Golden Gate Bridge toll booths where two lanes of 101 & a ramp all merge into one lane. After >2 min & several vehicles safely passed it, there was a bad crash of vehicles forced to go around it.

Waymo just announced they've done 20 million uncrewed/driverless rides/trips cumulatively. That's ~~100X as many as GM Cruise did, so alot by ADS/robot standards. By contrast, Uber does ~twice that many a day. Uber has been growing ~100X faster than Waymo. Every day Waymo falls further behind.

Potentially a big development that could force Tesla to rebrand Autopilot and FSD at least in California. FWIW, California legislature passed a law just to force & arm DMV to pursue this case which they've now won.

"Saw this Waymo stalled on Basse in front of the Lincoln Heights shopping center in San Antonio, and blocking the left lane. No obstacles or obstructions in sight [except for the robot]." OP: reddit.Goddard157 Waymo recently began uncrewed ops in San Antonio, so it's going (or not going) as usual.

"they’re just la drivers now… what is the point ??????" OP: tiktok.edenrouss0 6200 block of Santa Monica Blvd, LA I suspect Waymo's hoping that's the point. Lotta money in all those "drivers." The robot prob made a left not a u-turn. Either way, Waymo robots are playing chicken in traffic.