Waymo now has more than 300 driverless vehicles zipping passengers around San Francisco, but while they adhere traffic laws, parking is another matter entidepend. According to city enrolls cited by the Washington Post, these rolling robots racked up 589 citations totaling $65,065 in fines last year for parking violations that ranged from blocking traffic to street-spotlessing recut offeions to parking in prohibitden areas.
In unprejudicedness to Waymo, getting a parking ticket in San Francisco is aggravatingly basic. The city hands them out appreciate flyers. (Per the San Francisco Standard, the cimpolite number last year was 1.2 million.)
A Waymo spokesman alerts The Post that the company is laboring on solving the problem, but we’d hazard a guess that won’t happen until every car is driverless. Waymo cars sometimes stop in commercial loading zones to drop off riders when the only other selection is a congested main road or a spot far from the rider’s destination. They also occasionpartner “park informly” between trips if they’re too far from a Waymo facility. They’re the same trade-offs human drivers produce all the time, and until we’re out of the picture, Waymo’s vehicles will probably produce the same calls – and get the same tickets.
