A livestream trained on a San Francisco Waymo parking lot chronicles the occasional chaos that results when several cars return at once, all set to LoFi beats.
If you’ve ever wondered what happens to all those self-driving taxis when the world is asleep, one YouTube channel has you covered. Since the beginning of the month, software engineer Sophia Tung has been livestreaming a San Francisco parking lot that Waymo is renting to give its robotaxis somewhere to go during their downtime. Tung told The Verge via email that the company appeared to “partially” take over the lot on July 28th then later took over the entire lot.
If there aren’t any Waymos in the lot, “the flock will start migrating back” between 7PM and 9PM PST on Sunday through Thursday or 11PM through midnight, Friday and Saturday, says text overlaid on the video. As I write this, the lot is calm, with just three cars parked in it. But when the lot starts to fill up what looks like a maddening ballet of autonomous parking — and honking — begins. The noise goes for as much as an hour at a time before it settles down, she said.
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