Waymo now has more than 300 driverless vehicles pulling passengers near San Francisco, but despite their traffic laws, parking is another matter. According to city records Cited by The Washington PostThese rolling robots totaled $589 last year, totaling $65,065 for parking violations, ranging from blocked traffic to restrictions on street cleaning to parking in prohibited areas.
To be fair, getting a parking ticket in San Francisco is very easy. The city delivers them like a flyer. (According to San Francisco standards, the rough figures for last year are 1.2 million)
A Waymo spokesman told the post that the company is working on the issue, but we have dangerous speculation that this will not happen until every vehicle is driverless. Waymo cars sometimes park in commercial loading areas so that the only option is to get a crowded main road or a very far from the rider’s destination. If they are too far from the Waymo facility, they occasionally “shortly” between trips. They are tradeoffs that human drivers have been making until we leave the picture, Waymo’s vehicle might make the same call and get the same ticket.
