Keeping robot freeloaders out of customer parking: E Jefferson St & S 9th St, Phoenxi, AZ ~block from Chase Field where the Diamond Backs hosted the Braves. "stuck downtown in the middle of a busy baseball game/parade ending when everybody’s trying to get home" OP: tiktok.cookingwithchefstephanie

Yet another (97+) Wrong Way Waymo: 1700 block of E Cesar Chavez St, Austin,TX It used gaps in the cones provided to make left turns to drive briefly on the wrong side of a double yellow line. "Last night, a Waymo was going the wrong way on East Cesar Chavez Street in Austin" OP: x.RedTexan1200

Yesterday, a Waymo robot had to be towed from a flooded road: Contour Dr near McCollough Ave, San Antonio, TX Contour Dr is two-way. The robot stopped on the wrong side of the street and should've been able to turn around or back out. Multiple defects/failures. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM49...

"The Waymo was blocking a whole street from moving and. Then we were trying to reverse and two Waymo’s pulled up behind us WTH?" OP: tiktok.bevmeetsworld, Austin, TX When a Waymo robot fails, a race condition begins between getting it moving again and another one coming to complicate the situation.

"Why are these cars on the road?" OP: tiktok.JJHester1 N Central Expy (Griggs Park), Dallas, Texas Waymo, same problems evermore evenly distributed.

"The stop lights were out! The Waymo cars were stuck" OP: tiktok.ibakeawkwardly Stocker St at Don Miguel Dr, Los Angeles Waymo stranded passengers in the middle of the street and blocked all eastbound lanes bc they still haven't fixed their >2 yr old traffic light outage defect. Maybe they can't.

Another Waymo robot stuck driving the wrong way in another drive thru and disobeying another police officer. Whatabuggy "driver" Good luck San Antonio OP: tiktok.alysonaranda

18th St, Mission, San Francisco Waymo gets alotta parking tickets. 589 in 2024 in SF alone per WaPo, when Waymo had ~half their current SF fleet. Uncrewed Waymo robots can't be ticketed for a moving violation in California due to a loophole in the 2012 AV law. Scofflaw as an automated service.

"Austin Independent School District notified the NTSB of one additional event involving a Waymo vehicle that passed a school bus stopped to load and unload students. This March 25 event will be included in our ongoing safety investigation" @ntsbnewsroom.bsky.social (on x) 32 Waymo school bus events

Waymo v Waymo + Waymo bc never enough robots: 1200 block of Treat Ave (Garfield Sq Park), Mission, San Francisco Treat is wide enough to pass, but AI is bad at geometry and/or Waymo's imposed too wide buffers around their robots. Telops was prob engaged in minutes. OP: tiktok.shotofculturepodcast

Yet another (96+) Wrong Way Waymo: 12th St NE at Juniper St, Atlanta, Georgia These mistakes seem more prevalent in Waymo's newer geos, implying Waymo deploys before having accurate maps and depends on finding their errors by driving into them. FAFO as an automated service. OP: tiktok.itismxche

The real battle will have to wait for when/if Waymo ever removes safety drivers there. Given the renown of Massachusetts turkeys and the proven ability of San Francisco's seagulls to dominate Waymo robots, I've little doubt who will win.

A Waymo robot backed up for a turning truck, but not far enough: 6th St at Alameda, Los Angeles One more telop 'nudge' may do it. OP: tiktok.kermitwiththelog

SF Bay Area robot tractor company appears to have shutdown/failed after burning though ~$240 million, which was prob not a realistic amount to build this. TFW, your dream remains irrational longer than you can remain solvent. www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

"We haven’t necessarily solved automated driving, but our solutions are good enough, bc we use humans for backup. When an automated vehicle gets stuck at a double-parked car, it calls home and asks a person for a system two decision." Gill Pratt Which has failed recently in Wuhan, SF, LA, TX, & AZ.

Yet another (95+) Wrong Way Waymo: Cambridge Elementary School, 1001 Townsend Ave, San Antonio, TX Disobeyed traffic control signs and officer, per Pam Antal, witness who made video. That street has been one way during school days 7-9 am & 2:30-4:30 pm for decades. OP: tiktok.ksatnews

A Zoox undrivable robot failed/stopped in traffic, 4 other Zoox undrivable robots drove by, then it went prob telops assisted: Sands Ave approaching Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas Unreliability as an automated service. OP: tiktok.spectronetworks

Big robot outage today in Wuhan. Talk of system/fleetwide hard failure, ie system crash, many robots stopped in place/lane, some got crashed into, many ppl stranded. Prob fewer robots but harder failures w worse MRC than Waymo's in SF last Dec. Steep gradient decent to road hazard. Video & news 🧵

The title of this @aarianmarshall.bsky.social article is incorrect/misleading. Tesla didn't state this had happened, they wrote it could happen. AFAICT, this is very similar to what Waymo has said could happened, but says hasn't. Waymo calls it "reposition" not drive. www.wired.com/story/tesla-...

PAX videos w the theme: "When your Waymo almost" OP: tiktok.michelebondurant4 OP engaged CSR telop who escalated to ERT telop, while the robot was driving where it wasn't supposed to for ~40 seconds, per OP. Waymo telops was ineffective, AFAICT. Do you feel robot lucky while waiting for telops?

Sen Markey's just published the most comprehensive information avail to the public on robot telops, which is quite something given the decades deluge of AV co PR claims of "transparency." pdfs of his report, the AV co provided info, & letter to NHTSA at link www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-r...

Zoox reported 7 crashes in 5 days of testing in San Francisco (3/12-3/16), 5 by their undrivable robots, all at low speed during close maneuvers. IMO, Zoox screwed up their design by making robots much less visible from front/back than side. Nearby drivers may only see black through window/mirror.

Yet another (94+) Wrong Way Waymo Texas, prob Austin Seems to be an increase in the frequency of Waymo robots going the wrong way at clearly marked locations. State and federal regulators do not require Waymo to report these incidents. OP: reddit.noodesandcoludes

Today, a Waymo robot stopped in the middle of southbound I4 exit ramp at W Sand Lake Rd, Orlando, FL Same robot problems more evenly distributed. OP: x.SaiRariko

"Waymo defeated by drive thru" OP: tiktok.importantjordann Church's Chicken 4720 Crenshaw Blvd, Los Angeles The Waymo robot stopped for a passenger pick up by the drive thru window and going the wrong way. Mom's a trooper, a robotrooper. FWIW, Waymo's had alotta problems w drive thrus, esp in LA.

Yet another (93+) Wrong Way Waymo: DeKalb Ave & Krog St (Tunnel), Atlanta, GA Note the left rear door opened briefly. Many Waymo passengers in errant/stuck robots have chosen/had to get out and make their own way through traffic, construction sites, foliage, and even off a fwy. OP: x.GAFollowers

For years, some Tesla FSD Uber drivers have claimed >90% of their paid miles are "driven" by FSD, but this is the first passenger description/thread of such a ride that I've seen. Being driven by a non-robot that the driver trusts as if it were a robot is prob riskier than being driven by a robot.

This often happens at this small lot, where the back section is reserved for Waymo robots, the front is public charging, and there isn't much space to maneuver: 350 Pacific Ave, San Francisco Waymo robots also sometimes drive the wrong way on this block of one-way Pacific Ave to get to the lot.

Yet another (92+) Wrong Way Waymo: Haymarket at Pall Mall, London, UK Who could have guessed mapping London would be such a challenge. OP: x.biLLey1998

"Waymo not liking the Webster/Haight street light bug...light won’t switch from red to green for Webster street" OP: reddit.Agreeable_Capital749, San Francisco Wouldn't want to be a telop in Michigan or Manila trying to get this robot through this intersection, though slowly turning right might do.

Waymo being Waymo, prob San Francisco. OP: x.RejoFerru

@kirstenkorosec.bsky.social made a fundamental analysis mistake the premise of this article, mixing 2 kinds of Waymo data: - 6 official announcements of having just reached an exact rides/wk milestone, eg 500k/wk - a stmt in February they were doing >400k rides/wk techcrunch.com/2026/03/27/w...

"a Waymo is stopped sideways on El Camino in San Carlos and is blocking two lanes of traffic. At least its hazard lights are on" OP: x.jasonmcminn Same problems more evenly distributed.

First video of a Zoox pickup in Austin. The first passenger to get in was Zoox CEO Aicha Evans. Location is by the Texas Capitol Visitors Center, 112 E 11th St, Austin, TX TxDOT HQ is across the street. Keep your legislators close and your regulators closer. OP: x.rocketshipalx

A Raleigh, NC developer is proposing a parking garage to tightly pack & stack robots, but they seem to have a poor understanding of existing robot facilities, ie waymore than just parking & charging and no stacking of robots w delicate expensive external sensors. hoodline.com/2026/03/waym...

"We had the road closed due to road work and the car sat there for a while until it said 'approach the car to speak to representatives' and that’s where the video starts of me stuttering" OP: tiktok.bxndojr, Houston Note the Waymo telop apparently did not know the street was one-way.

Yesterday, Waymo announced 500k rides/week. Waymo presented this as 2x in <year, which is true but misleading as their growth was linear not exponential. Waymo's announced EOY million/wk target requires 2x in ~9 months at ave of ~2.4x previous growth rate, ie add ave >10 robots & 1-2 telop per day.

"Went to the Grove LA today and for some odd reason the drop off point was moved to an apartment nearby. It caused a pile up of cars. Before I decided to start recording there were 4 stuck going in circles" OP: reddit.Icy-Ambition3534

A Waymo robot drifting across a lane line as described in this reddit post is very rare, AFAIK. Alma is a main connector running just east of the Caltrain line. It should get plenty of Waymo robots, ie well-mapped. Sun would've been low at ~6 pm, so maybe there was glare like in this streetview.

A Waymo robot failed on the 4th St bridge northbound blocking the light rail ~block from the Caltrain Station and Oracle Park today. Safety drivers fix this in seconds. The 4th St drawbridge spans a Federal waterway giving boats priority over lt rail, cars, and even robots.

This article has the most/only thorough explanation of the Waymo robot that mishandled a fire that closed 280. Reportedly, there was confusion and delay between CHP & Waymo, echoing many Waymo PD incidents. The whole article is excellent and dives into the shallowness of Waymo's ops "transparency."

Another Waymo robot stuck on a narrow road: 800 block of N Vendome St, LA Notice ~6" unused/open to the left. Waymo robots seem overly hesitant (poorly trained) wrt foliage and uncurbed roads. Jerky motions passing cars prob from resisting repeated telop 'go' commands. OP: tiktok.oykanchalee2

Last night, another Waymo robot drove through an active police scene: Brazos St at Old Pecan St, Austin, TX Note, OP mistakenly put the year as 2025 in her video, but corrected it in her comments. Robots don't DUI they DWO (Driving While Oblivious). OP: tiktok.greta.div

This video of a very damaged Waymo Jaguar and the car it reportedly crashed w in LA is floating around, but I can't verify the Facebook source/OP or location. Waymo's redacted NHTSA crash report should be publicly available ~mid-April.

Yet another (91+) Wrong Way Waymo: Forestshire & Basse, San Antonio, TX "I just observed a Waymo Autonomous driverless vehicle making a left turn while in the wrong lane…crazy to trust technology to drive you around" OP: tiktok.joeyjoejoseph00 Robots driving on the wrong side went from OMG to oh.

Waymo robot stuck/stopped in the middle of: 271 17th St, Atlanta Can't tell if it failed or was waiting to get into the left turn lane. Waymo robots have become kinda notorious for being very deliberate when forcing their way into a queue for a turn. Robots have time. OP: tiktok.fancytheactress

3 videos of a Waymo fwy crash w a semi: 288 northbound approaching 45, Houston can briefly see a long ~5 pm backup in the rear view mirrors Waymo's redacted NHTSA crash report should be publicly avail ~mid-May. link to approx location maps.app.goo.gl/c9hK7PAHsS1U... OP: tiktok.gisselle_silva_

Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov says they are doing "about 500k rides per week" and "I don't see any gaps in the core technology," but when asked about humans needed to operate, he mentioned their depot staff but not telops or field rescue. ~linear growth past ~2 years. share.transistor.fm/s/4d6cad44

Zoox announced "plans for service expansions" of their free ridehail in their small fleet of undrivable robots: - to cover northeast ~quarter of San Francisco, per attached Zoox map - to more fixed "locations" in Las Vegas - to begin testing in Miami & Austin zoox.com/journal/zoox...

Nashville police as robot valet: Broadway & 3rd Ave, Nashville, TN Reportedly, Waymo said police disengaged the robotics, which I thought only Waymo could do, remotely or in person, prior to a first responder takeover of their vehicle. Maybe Waymo failed to mention coordination w their telops.