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John Berry
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NHTSA closed their year+ investigation of Waymo. Waymo's 2 recalls re to this investigation were for crashing into a utility pole and roadway barriers. Evidently, robots repeatedly driving on the wrong side of the road into traffic and disobeying traffic control devices is ok in USA. Scale that.
An interesting scenario that someone (regulator, politician, journalist, etc) should ask Waymo.

Waymo robots have driven off w at least one woman's dog, many phones, luggage at least a few times, and locked ppl out of their robots which then drove off stranding them multiple times. Lotta videos.
A pal accidentally dropped her phone inside of the Waymo when she exited & because the doors locked automatically & she couldn't interact with it, it took off with it. Imagine if she'd been struggling with a rowdy toddler at the same time, the door closed, & the Waymo took off with her child.
November 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Zoox has adopted Waymo's technique of using and/or blocking access to bus stops for pickups:

910 Harrison St, San Francisco

Bus stops are convenient bc they are usually unoccupied and relatively large/safe.

Scofflaw as an automated service.

OP: x.ayokanme
November 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
A Waymo robot in Los Angeles correctly stopped instead of entering potentially too deep water, but then didn't move, stranding a passenger seen walking away.

Possible failures by routing, robot, and telops.

Always be prepared to walk when you hail a robot.

OP: tiktok.robertmurtaugh5 (10/14/2025)
November 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM
"Santa Monica Orders Waymo to Halt Overnight Operations at Charging Facilities...due to nuisance conditions at both sites."

Passed unanimously by the City Council.

smdp.com/news/transpo...
Santa Monica Orders Waymo to Halt Overnight Operations at Charging Facilities - Santa Monica Daily Press
The City of Santa Monica has formally demanded that Waymo cease overnight operations at its two local autonomous vehicle charging facilities, escalating a months-long dispute over noise complaints fro...
smdp.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Waymo privatized another public street:

Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco

Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.

The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.

OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Video from within the 2nd of at least 3 Waymo robots stuck waiting for a semi:

Safeway on Townsend St, San Francisco

~across the street from the Caltrain Station

Waymo telops/CSR unnecessarily called them near the video's end, which was late and/or a kind of false positive.

OP: tiktok.meemz007
November 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
A Waymo robot's phantom braking & evasive maneuver alarmed LA passengers.

It may've mispredicted imminent path of an oncoming vehicle. Headlight glare off wet roads reduces camera SNR, so fusion magnifies radar+lidar. If radar detects oncoming slight lane drift, then overreact.

OP: tiktok.tamela_3
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Another disturbingly dangerous & weird Waymo robot maneuver:

Baker St turning onto Centennial Olympic Park Ave, Atlanta

Recently saw a Waymo robot force its way diagonally across 3 lanes of traffic in SF, w similar clearance, to get in right lane for a next block stop.

OP: tiktok.larorropirorro
November 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Another Waymo robot crashed w a curb. Not their worst recent curb crash. IDK how/why they keep crashing w such clearly visible, easily recognizable, and trivial to avoid objects.

The robot appears to be immobilized/MRC/stuck, awaiting Waymo field rescue ppl, ie tilt/godot state.

OP: tiktok.ozboram
November 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Waymo robot and telops try to wake a sleeping passenger at destination in San Francisco.

Can hear Waymo's prompts escalate from a quieter alert to a telops/CSR speaking prob scripted to a louder alert prob initiated by telops, making this the best of several 'wake-up PAX' videos.

OP: x.ViolentlyOk
November 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I have no good explanation for this and doubt Waymo eng does either:

San Vicente Blvd at Gorham Ave, Los Angeles

Prob turning around, kinda rudely/threateningly. That small parking lot has one entrance/exit.

Notice how having an uncommunicative "driver" burdens others.

OP: tiktok.faraon.baku
November 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Another example of a Waymo robot creeping forward (and turning) when it shouldn't:

Greenway Rd at 36th St, Phoenix

"Hey Waymo come get your drunk self driving vehicle. He’s acting a fool here turning left towards me while I was going straight on a GREEN light."
x.PhilTheAssyrian
November 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
A Waymo robot partially on the wrong side of a two-way forced its way through a parking lot:

2112 Sunset Blvd, LA

Notice another car behind the one that backs up.

"This particular Waymo caused a major traffic jam"
OP: tiktok.@rjlind78

Another example of Waymo shifting risk to other road users.
#waymo shouldn’t be allowed in parking lots. #trafficjam #waymowars
TikTok video by Rebecca
www.tiktok.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
California DMV approved a big expansion of Waymo's uncrewed/driverless geo.

Waymo just sent some robots to San Diego. Now they can dive uncrewed.

This allows Waymo to apply to CPUC to expand their ridehail within the new DMV geo. CPUC has approved every request, usually in ~month or so, AFAIK.
November 21, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Mid-day robot density may be creeping up in ~downtown SF.

Encountered at least one and up to 9 robots at ~95% of >30 controlled (mostly light, a few stop sign) intersections today. ~90% Waymo, remainder Zoox undrivables.
November 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
An empty Waymo robot ~8-pt turned around in a DTLA deadend it was prob mis-routed to and possibly w telassist.

Notice the robot stayed unnaturally far from the gate. Waymo had a recall for repeatedly crashing w gates that may have "fixed" their defect mostly by avoidance.

OP: tiktok.kylentodd
November 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Looks like Waymo sent all Zeekr robots to San Diego. This is prob the hotel where the safety drivers are staying.

Waymo does not currently have a DMV permit to operate uncrewed/driverless in San Diego, though DMV's never denied them an extension AFAIK, ie quick rubber stamp.

OP: tiktok.heyimissac
November 21, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Another example of a Waymo robot that got too close to a stopped truck before making a ~dangerous maneuver:

2100 block of Chestnut St, San Francisco

The car well behind it is better positioned to see & be seen by oncoming traffic, though it should've cleared the xwalk.

OP: tiktok.whynotcheboludo
November 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Really do have to be close with good light to see the complete emptiness of most Waymo robots.

The Zoox undrivable robots are more transparent and nearly always empty in my experience.
November 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
poem mightier than gpu

wonderful if dense paper:

"In Book X of The Republic, Plato excludes poets on the grounds that mimetic language can distort judgment and bring society to a collapse"

62% ave attack success vs Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Deepseek, Qwen, Mistral AI, Meta, xAI, and Moonshot AI
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Palo Alto sowing what they reap.

"50 passes by a Waymo...an hour...in groups of up to seven or eight cars...80% or 90% of all the car traffic is Waymos"

Same story everywhere Waymo goes.

They'll never know how lucky they are Uber ATG & GM Cruise folded.

www.paloaltoonline.com/transportati...
'Nobody asked for this': Waymo cars flock to quiet Palo Alto street
Palo Alto resident Ben Baum rose like normal before sunrise on Saturday morning, coffee in hand, and watched from his window as a driverless Waymo drove by. Then a second. Then a third. In total, Baum...
www.paloaltoonline.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
"I work at a bus yard and recently Waymos have been routed through the yard. Tonight our exit gate was partially closed and a Waymo drove into the yard and was trapped."
OP: reddit.Songbird662

San Francisco

Another self-trapping robot.

Trapped Waymo robots seem not to remember how they got in.
November 20, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Irony of this is Waymo serves the Palo Alto and San Francisco Caltrain stations, so he could easily have the last ~mile convenience of ridehail/taxi with relatively minimal impact afforded by using a train for ~80-90% of his trip. Waymo even lets customers schedule rides to match train.
i fucking hate these people so much. "i spent the time working, reading and thinking" so you want a train. you want the bus. get on fucking public transit you absolute coward. or are you afraid of being next to god forbid someone poorer than you??
November 19, 2025 at 10:15 PM
"a juvenile...reported their foot getting "stuck underneath" a Waymo vehicle...around midnight on Nov. 19, Scottsdale officers responded to the area of 92nd Street and Cochise Drive for a report of a juvenile screaming out for help...[who] was taken to a hospital"

www.12news.com/article/news...
November 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Not the first time the World's Most Experienced Driver couldn't tell parked cars w no lights on from cars waiting to turn w lights on. Welcome to the future present of Waymo in San Francisco et al.

>100 billion VMT of simulations
~200 million VMT of IRL driving
~17 yrs of R&D

OP: tiktok.the.it.xp
November 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM