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
vehicles
became
backed
up
in
the
cul
de
sac
and
started
honking.
Tung
said
the
company
quickly
“disabled
the
cul
de
sac
completely
and
threw
us
an
ice
cream
social
to
smooth
things
over.”
Things
were
quiet
for
a
couple
of
days
after
that,
she
added.
But
early
this
morning,
the
robotaxis
revealed
another
edge
case
when
enough
returned
at
once
that
a
line
formed
to
get
into
the
lot.
After
one
of
them
reversed
toward
the
others
waiting
out
on
the
roadway
(where
they’re
seemingly
free
from
the
tyranny
of
the
lot’s
restrictions),
it
set
off
a
chain
reaction
of
Waymo
vehicles
each
backing
up,
triggering
the
next
one
in
line
to
honk
and
drive
backward,
and
so
on.
Tung
said
she’s
already
reached
out
to
Waymo
about
the
new
round
of
honking.
She
also
has
plans
to
talk
with
Waymo
product
management
and
operations
director
Vishay
Nihalani
on
the
livestream
tomorrow,
starting
at
5:30PM
ET.
Waymo
did
not
immediately
respond
to
our
request
for
comment.
(Originally posted by Wes Davis)
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