Waymo was slapped with nearly 600 parking tickets last year at SF only

Waymo now has more than 300 driver -free vehicles that zipped passengers around San Francisco, but although they follow the laws of traffic, parking is another matter. According to the city’s archives Quoted by the Washington PostThese hilly robots accumulated 589 quotes totaling $ 65,065 in fines last year for parking violations that went from traffic to traffic to street cleaning restrictions to parking in prohibited areas.

In all honesty towards Waymo, obtaining a parking ticket in San Francisco is aggravate. The city tends them like flyers. (According to the standard of San Francisco, the approximate number last year was 1.2 million.)

A Waymo spokesperson tells the message that the company is working to solve the problem, but we would risk supposing that this will not happen until each car is driver. Waymo cars sometimes stop in commercial loading areas to deposit cyclists when the only other option is a main congested road or a place far from the destination of the rider. They “also park briefly” between trips if they are too far from a Waymo installation. These are the same compromises as human drivers do all the time, and until we are out of the image, Waymo vehicles will likely make the same calls – and will get the same tickets.