---
title: "Group of Waymos Get Confused, Clog Up San Francisco Street"
description: "In San Francisco, a new viral video shows that Waymo's robotaxis are once again causing way-mo problems than expected."
date: "2024-11-04"
modified: "2024-11-04"
authors:
  - name: "Noor Al-Sibai"
    job_title: "Senior Staff Writer"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/waymos-clog-san-francisco-street"
categories:
  - "Advanced Transport"
tags:
  - "Autonomous Cars"
  - "robotaxis"
  - "the digest"
  - "waymo"
---

# Group of Waymos Get Confused, Clog Up San Francisco Street

![In San Francisco, a new viral video shows that Waymo's robotaxis are once again causing way-mo problems than expected.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/waymos-clog-san-francisco-street.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: @romokris\</em\>*

## Touch-and-Go

In San Francisco, Google's Waymo's driverless taxis are once again causing way-mo problems than expected.

In a [video posted to TikTok](<https://www.tiktok.com/@romokris/video/7430541142229519662?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc>), a bemused onlooker documents [one of the company's Jaguar I-Paces](<https://waymo.com/blog/2018/03/meet-our-newest-self-driving-vehicle/>) as it causes an autonomous pileup in the city's [notoriously traffic-riddled streets](<https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/san-francisco-is-8th-worst-city-in-us-for-driving-according-to-study/>).

"The Waymo is stuck because the Waymo is trying to go behind the Amazon \[truck\]," the bystander explains, "but then it's stuck behind the Waymo, and oh, my god, there's another Waymo!"

Indeed, as the 35-second clip shows, an Amazon truck got trapped between *four* of the white Waymo cars. As explicated by the user behind the video, who goes by the handle romokris, there ended up being a 19-car pileup resulting from the mishap.

"What's everybody gonna do?" romokris continues while cracking up. "It is a Waymo standoff! What is gonna happen? Who's winning? \[cackles\]"

Thankfully, another of the driverless taxis shows up to apparently save the day and shepherd its fellow Waymos back to safe harbor.

"That Waymo came through, woo hoo!" the onlooker declares. "Yay!"

https://www.tiktok.com/@romokris/video/7430541142229519662?_r=1&_t=8r33LjL5vKg

## Honk Shoo

This is not the first time Waymos have gone haywire in the city by the bay.

Soon after [debuting in SF](<https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/waymo-expands-self-driving-taxi-service-around-san-francisco-los-angeles/>), a [bunch of the company's cars started honking at each other](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/robotaxis-gather-honk-all-night>), for some reason, when trying to navigate a specific parking lot.

The apparent Waymo glitch became such a nuisance that residents of the neighborhood where the honking took place said the noise was waking them up at night.

"Over the past two weeks, I've been woken up more times overnight than I have combined over 20 years," explained disgruntled San Franciscan Russell Pofsky in an [interview with the local *ABC7* news station](<https://abc7news.com/post/waymo-cars-honk-each-other-night-disturbing-san-francisco-neighbors/15179709/>).

Video footage of the [Waymo convention in the South of Market parking deck](<https://x.com/abc7newsbayarea/status/1823256993311740196>) showed just how bizarre and cacophonous the problem was as the robotaxis tried and failed to maneuver around each other, honking their apparent displeasure at each other all the while.

Now it looks like Waymos have caused yet more commotion in the streets of San Francisco.

**More on Waymos:** [*Waymo Passenger Clutches Small Dog as Vandals Surround Vehicle*](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/waymo-san-francisco-vandalism-graffiti>)

## Author
At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow.

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