OP: tiktok.darkwindowsluvr got in one side of her Waymo robot and an uninvited stranger got in the other side. last ~12 sec trimmed to fit bsky 3 min limit.

Evidently, spiders are colonizing Waymo robots. Nature abhors a vacated space. AFAIK, Waymo robots in ridehail service typically return to a depot once or twice a day for a disk swap and any other routine cleaning/maintenance. OP: tiktok.marinapmoy

Waymo robot picked the ideal location to block the most traffic during a pickup: Bell St by Decatur, Atlanta Congestion as an automated service. OP: tiktok.erickwilliams895

Another Waymo robot apparently immobilized by the rare edge case of a traffic light: Florence Ave at Crenshaw Blvd, Los Angeles It was skewed across two lanes, front in a through lane and rear in the left turn only lane. "And this is why they don't need these on the streets" OP: tiktok.teeebabiee

~10 min time lapse video of a Waymo robot repeatedly (~11 times) backing into the street from a parking lot in Austin. Many videos show Waymo robots stuck in execution loops, including repeatedly backing into traffic and other dangerous driving. Bug or feature or both? OP: tiktok.driven2livefree

Waymo robot illegally stopped in a bus stop forcing SFMuni bus to go around it, endangering VRU: Mission at 20th St, San Francisco This bus zone begins at the crosswalk behind the robot. Waymo has gotten tickets for illegally stopping in bus zones in San Francisco. OP: tiktok.myneighborollie

glimpses of some artificially interesting transients of san francisco: “How did you know I was a founder?” “Your Kim Jong-il jacket" yep fwiw, hikes in san francisco don't require hiking shoes or ai, usually "when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro" Hunter S Thompson

Human dependent robots: Santa Monica, Waymo robot Note the Waymo robot says or more likely its telops makes it say "thank you" at ~30 sec. OP: tiktok.zoewarch

TFW, the crash reporting crashes:

"Oh you know just another waymo being a waymo glitching outta nowhere and blocking traffic" OP: tiktok.____eriick415 Gough at Hayes, San Francisco At ~3 sec, the robot moves forward slightly. At ~5 sec, the stopped robot puts on hazard lights. 5k lb road hazards as an automated service.

First I've heard of this crash. NHTSA requires Waymo report crashes when their robot "contributes or is alleged to contribute (by steering, braking, acceleration, or other operational performance) to another vehicle’s physical impact" Waymo's redacted crash report should be avail ~mid-November.

Beware, in this article Jonathan M. Gitlin erroneously compared three Tesla crashes none of which reported an airbag deployment with only those Waymo crashes that reported an airbag deployment to calculate his per mile crash comparison/ratio. Sloppy/lazy reporting. arstechnica.com/cars/2025/09...

Yet another (57+) Wrong Way Waymo: Amtrak Station, Deering Rd NW, Atlanta Apparently, the robot is signaling a left turn into the Amtrak pickup/dropoff lot. OP: tiktok.misskaylee2funny

4.6 earthquake, Berkeley, California felt like a sudden jolt earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Stochastic system's inherent failure rate compounded by rewarding "guessing" when uncertain. By comparison, Waymo rewards robots for not crashing. When uncertain/fail they stop in traffic for no apparent reason, which is also unsafe. Failure rates matter. The full paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04664

Another Waymo customer's first ride ended stuck for no apparent/good reason w the dread "Our team is working to get you moving" msg/status, which also/telops failed, ie multiple Waymo system failures as they often do. Waymo's tech is unreliable and not just for "edge" cases. OP: tiktok.beccalilyc

Waymo had 9 crashes in first ~46k miles of commercial ridehail service in San Francisco. GM Cruise had a multi-person injury crash first day of commercial ops in SF, for which they were partially at fault, causing their first recall which didn't fix their problem. AV 'great' is a very low bar.

The first 'circles forever' pseudo-self-driving car documented was in this 2023 Kevin Chen video of a GM Cruise robot, IIRC. There have of course been many more such videos, mostly of Waymo robots stuck in loops, inc one by Kevin in which Waymo sent a rescue person. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvDq...

Apparently, a pole attacked a Waymo robot or something: Lot 53, Speedway Road, UT campus, Austin, TX ~half block from where a Waymo with passenger(s) recently drove into floodwaters "Waymo still needs a little work" OP: reddit.Dry-Manager4994

Reuters reports Arizona gave Tesla a permit "to test robotaxis in the Phoenix Metro area using safety driver" Meanwhile, Tesla FSD: Meeker Ave at N. Henry, Brooklyn OP: reddit.MichaelRahmani

2 recent videos w narratives of Waymo robots swerving for no apparent reason, ie phantom driving. "When you trust the future, but the future crashes." OP: tiktok.unapologeticallyrockyy

Pedestrian/OP of this video says he saw the crash and it was Waymo's fault: 725 S Flower St, Los Angeles Waymo's redacted NHTSA crash report should be publicly available ~mid-November. OP: tiktok.chach_626

A Waymo drove on the wrong side of the street & double yellow lines to avoid hitting pedestrians in a crosswalk: Santa Monica Blvd at Western Ave, LA 0 sec yellow light & Waymo stopped in the intersection/xwalk ~1 sec light turns red ~2 sec Waymo goes ~6-8 sec wrong way Waymo OP: tiktok.esprite1

When we get to pleading in my first-year Civil Procedure class, my students often ask me just how over the top a complaint would have to be for a judge to strike it without even being *asked* to do so. Thanks to President Trump, we have an answer: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Passenger video of a Tesla FSD w safety driver driving over a traffic cone: 500 block of Union St, San Francisco It may not have recognized the cone, as the in-car screen doesn't render/show a cone, AFAICT. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzaf...

Waymo being weird. Evidently, Waymo is refusing to dropoff anywhere on this block (pic2 green exclusion), despite designated pudo zones on both Pine and California. pic2 shows the choices Waymo One app offers for destination of 1000 Pine St (NE corner of Pine & Taylor) which has a white pudo zone.

3 more Waymos violating parking lot construction zones in Arizona. The first Waymo appears to be picking up two people. A Waymo robot that drove ~100 ft into a similar AZ shopping mall parking lot construction zone was among the incidents NHTSA investigated. OP: tiktok.ronniemanes4

Another passenger stuck in a Waymo & unhappy about it backing up for no apparent reason. Waymo customer service says a "specialist" is working to resolve the problem, ie there are at least 2 Waymo telops ppl engaged: one for the customer and one or more for the robot. OP: tiktok.ogbarbara_barbara

Yet another Waymo robot w passengers stuck in a loop with the dread msg: "Our team is working to get you moving" Waymo has "fixed" their looping bug several times, per Waymo. Safety driver fixes this in seconds. OP: tiktok.adrianandradegv

Blaming comms is the last refuge of breaking things fast bros.

Debranded former GM Cruise robots being transported in/around Ft Worth, reportedly.

Erick Williams often encounters Waymo robots tilting at their outer operational limits amid Atlanta road construction; a recent double feature: Wrong Way Waymo (56+) everyday stuck robot OP: tiktok.erickwilliams895

Apparently, a Tesla pseudo-robotaxi was about to drive into a bollard when the safety driver slammed on the breaks and took over: Tehama St, San Francisco Given the location is the dead end of an alley (off 2nd St), it was prob making a 3 pt turn. OP: x.srkeith

Nice graphic in this article, though it doesn't include the most complex part of the operation: telops, which is all on Waymo. Waymo wants to shed as much of this as fast as they can. That it's so complicated is due to their tech being so incomplete & unreliable. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Waymo announced they will offer ridehail service in Nashville "in the coming months" directly and via Lyft, a new partner. FWIW, Waymo execs have repeatedly said they don't want to be in the ridehail business. They want to sell tech to mfg who sell vehicles for many uses. waymo.com/blog/2025/09...

Our World in Data is lying in this thread when they claim to present "the latest reports" as they excluded the June 2025 report, which when included gives a rather different impression that undermines their growth narrative. Truth is Waymo's service is very fragile and shutdown for ~week in June.

Waymo "felt a lot safer [than taxi/ridehail]... til now" OP: tiktok.elinayael_ Women in a Waymo being harassed & followed by guys in another car called 911 instead of Waymo support bc faster & more effective. They could have also rerouted before reaching home, eg to the nearest police station.

"The other officer had to drive it inside Starbucks [on the corner to the left just out of frame and on the robot's side of the street]" OP: tiktok.gzmfrida Sepulveda Blvd at Palms Blvd, Los Angeles Why can't Waymo reliably pull over out of traffic as needed? Artificial Incapacity as a service.

"Tesla FSD doesn’t mishandle every railroad crossing every time" Do you feel lucky? IDK of a driving automation that reliably handles heavy rail crossings as well as a normal attentive human driver, inc Waymo who routes around many (not all) of them and still sometimes crashes w gate/barrier arms.

Another Waymo robot failed to handle a routine traffic light outage: Gough at Turk, San Francisco ~2 blocks from where ~12 Cruise robots failed blocking all of Gough for ~2 hours, reportedly due to a cellular outage. Earthquakes tend to knockout traffic lights and cell. OP: x.aahmad5394

Mayor Waymo invites Waymo to SFO: "SFO has signed a Testing and Operations Pilot Permit for... Waymo...to begin operating at the airport...in three phases...testing...with a human driver, testing...without a human driver...and eventually...commercial operations." www.sf.gov/news-mayor-l...

Through June 2025, Waymo had driven ~96 million uncrewed+telops VMT, nearly half in AZ. 2025Q2 was their 3rd quarter in a row w a declining rate of VMT growth, ie growing but evermore slowly. AZ slightly declined & SF was flat. LA has prob passed SF now to be #2 VMT/day and may be #1 before EOY.

NHTSA is investigating Tesla car doors: "scenarios involved parents exiting the vehicle...to remove a child from the back seat or placing a child in the back seat...unable to reopen a door to regain access to the vehicle....resorting to breaking a window to regain entry into the vehicle."

Yet another (55+) Wrong Way Waymo: 847 S Mill Ave, Omni Tempe Hotel, Tempe, AZ Video begins w the robot >150 feet from the nearest intersection. Bad AI > HD maps OP: tiktok.0liviawalkerr

An empty Waymo robot drove into a downed power line at 6 mph in San Bruno, California. 2 GM Cruise robots famously drove into a down SFMUNI catenary (ebus) line on Nob Hill in 2023, but this is the first for Waymo, AFAIK.

Pair of Waymo robots blocking all traffic: 300 block of E 2nd St, Los Angeles OP: tiktok.jorge.it.is

Waymo's first Miami crash, IIRC, is of the complex kind where the safety driver takes over seconds before the crash. Many times when these have happened in California, Waymo and Cruise did not report them as disengagements on their California Disengagement Reports.

A Waymo robot w passengers drove straight over a bike in the street at 23 mph: "the Waymo AV's front and undercarriage made contact with an unattended bicycle that was laying in the middle of the roadway." Waymo's narrative doesn't mention breaking, ie it apparently didn't recognize the bike.

3 more Waymo crashes w buses:

An empty Waymo robot had a crash w an SFFD fire truck. per NHTSA. AFAIK, this is the only report of this crash and it leaves out much of the relevant detail.