Waymo director says the company’s cars won’t honk at each other anymore

Waymo’s self-driving vehicles now not honk when close to one another, Waymo’s Director of Product and Operations Vishay Nihalani mentioned yesterday when he appeared on software program engineer . The automobiles had been noticed just a few weeks in the past, prompting Waymo to situation a software program patch.

As , residents residing close to the parking zone filled with Waymo taxis reported that regardless of the patch going reside, the taxis nonetheless honked at one another. Tung, who lived close to the idling taxis, arrange her reside stream to seize the cacophony of honking automobiles.

No good stream is full and not using a soundtrack, and Tung’s stream included lo-fi music within the vein of the ever present “LoFi Lady” on YouTube. The title, “Self Driving Taxi Depot Shenanigans To Calm down/Examine To,” was an apparent tribute to the LoFi Lady channel. (And sure, she had permission to make use of the music.) Regardless of a repair being pushed out, the stream captured the vehicles persevering with to honk at 4AM this previous Saturday.

Nihalani joined the stream to talk to Tung concerning the ongoing honking. In response to the director, the vehicles’ honking was an intentional characteristic for taxis cruising on public roads to keep away from collisions, however honking at one another whereas idling within the parking zone was by no means intentional. The taxis have now all been up to date to .

The Waymo service is obtainable for these residing in San Francisco, Phoenix, and 79 sq. miles of , stretching from Santa Monica to Downtown. In Might, the corporate introduced that its taxis had been making . Again in San Francisco, although, you’ll be able to nonetheless tune in to Tung’s chill livestream of a parking zone — simply with out the honking.