Waymo now has greater than 300 driverless autos zipping passengers round San Francisco, however whereas they comply with visitors legal guidelines, parking is one other matter totally. According to metropolis information cited by the Washington Post, these rolling robots racked up 589 citations totaling $65,065 in fines final yr for parking violations that ranged from blocking visitors to street-cleaning restrictions to parking in prohibited areas.
In equity to Waymo, getting a parking ticket in San Francisco is aggravatingly straightforward. The metropolis fingers them out like flyers. (Per the San Francisco Standard, the tough quantity final yr was 1.2 million.)
A Waymo spokesman tells The Post that the corporate is engaged on fixing the issue, however we’d hazard a guess that received’t occur till each automobile is driverless. Waymo automobiles generally cease in business loading zones to drop off riders when the one different choice is a congested foremost highway or a spot removed from the rider’s vacation spot. They additionally sometimes “park briefly” between journeys in the event that they’re too removed from a Waymo facility. They’re the identical trade-offs human drivers make on a regular basis, and till we’re out of the image, Waymo’s autos will in all probability make the identical calls – and get the identical tickets.
