Waymo now has more than 300 uninhabited vehicles that Zip passengers around San Francisco, but as they obey traffic laws, parking is another matter. According to City Records The Washington Post mentionedThese rolling robots racked 589 citations worth $ 65,065 in the fine last year for parking violations from traffic blocking to parking street cleaning restrictions to illicit areas.
Being fair to Waymo, getting a parking ticket to San Francisco is easy. The city reaches them like flyers. (Per standard in San Francisco, the rough number last year was 1.2 million.)
A Waymo speaker in the post says the company is working on problem solving, but we risk a guess that doesn't happen until every car has no driver. Sometimes Waymo cars stop commercial loading zones to drop riders if the only other option is a congested main road or a place far from the destination of the rider. Occasionally they will also “park a moment” between trips if they are so far from a Waymo facility. They are both trade-offs drivers who do all the time, and until we are out of the picture, Waymo's vehicles will probably make the same calls-and get the same tickets.
