San Francisco neighbors say repeated Waymo honking is keeping them up at night
www.nbcbayarea.com
In San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood, neighbors say repeated honking from Waymo driverless cars is disturbing their sleep.
  • Delusional@lemmy.worldEnglish
    146·
    4 months ago

    Why do driverless cars even have a horn installed? Take that shit out. It’s clearly a person only device.

    • CaptDust@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      19·
      4 months ago

      They’ll beep and backup a couple feet when a car in front reverses dangerously close, presumably as an alert to human drivers. Seems okay on paper.

      But in these parking lots waymo can’t negotiate a spot amongst themselves, leading to a chain reaction down the whole queue when the front car tries to pull into a spot, misses the mark, and has to back out/cut back into the line.

    • dev_null@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      What’s the reason humans need a horn installed in their car? Whatever it is, it’s the same reason for self-driving cars I guess.