AI Incident Database: Reported Glitch in Waymo Self-Driving Cars Purportedly Triggers Regular All-Night Honking in San Francisco
Waymo self-driving cars in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood reportedly began honking at each other late at night, disturbing residents' sleep. The autonomous vehicles, reportedly using a parking lot for ride pauses, triggered honking due to a purported glitch in their algorithms. Despite residents' complaints, the issue allegedly persisted for weeks until Waymo acknowledged the problem and began working on a fix.
AI Incident Database · Incident 794Operator lens (medium): inspect D4 (observability), D5 (model change gate), D6 (autonomy oversight).
Event summary
Waymo self-driving cars in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood reportedly began honking at each other late at night, disturbing residents' sleep. The autonomous vehicles, reportedly using a parking lot for ride pauses, triggered honking due to a purported glitch in their algorithms. Despite residents' complaints, the issue allegedly persisted for weeks until Waymo acknowledged the problem and began working on a fix.
Linked entities
- waymo
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- south-of-market-residents
organisation | 70%
- south-of-market-businesses
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- san-francisco-residents
organisation | 70%
- general-public-of-san-francisco
organisation | 70%
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| ent-aiid-waymo to ent-psf-d4 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-waymo to ent-psf-d4 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-waymo to ent-psf-d5 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-waymo to ent-psf-d5 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-waymo to ent-psf-d5 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-waymo to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-waymo to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-waymo to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-waymo to ent-psf-d1 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-waymo to ent-psf-d1 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-waymo to ent-psf-d1 | maps to | 60% |