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Waymo’s robotaxi depot is still honking its San Francisco neighbors awake

Waymo’s robotaxi depot is still honking its San Francisco neighbors awake

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A Waymo car driving on a street.
A Waymo car driving in San Francisco. | Photo: Smith Collection / Gado / Getty Images

San Francisco neighbors who live in a building next to a Waymo parking lot are still being haunted by overnight honking. That’s despite a fix from the ride hail company that seems to have fixed the original problem — the cars beeping their horns in the parking lot — but has also revealed that the issue is a little stickier than it may have first seemed.

Waymo said last week that the honking was the result of a safety feature triggered when a Waymo car detects another reversing toward it. Sophia Tung, who runs a YouTube livestream of the lot, told The Verge in an email that the first night after Waymo’s patch, several of the cars missed the parking lot and inexplicably entered a cul de sac next to her building. In a video we viewed, the…

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