Last week we heard about a group of San Francisco residents who have been kept awake at night by 4am honking from a nearby Waymo lot, and now one of those residents is planning to interview Vishay Nihalani, the Director or Product Management & Operations for the company on her live stream dedicated to what else, sharing those honking cars with the world.If you’re not familiar, residents of San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood recently complained about a parking lot where Waymo vehicles what between rides. When the cars would back into spaces in the lot to wait, they would set off the sensors in the nearby vehicles, causing them to honk. It sounds innocent enough until you find out that honking happens pretty much 24/7, and a lot in the middle of the night.Earlier this week Waymo issued a fix to reduce the honking. The first attempt involved sending the vehicles to an adjacent dul-de-sac which actually resulted in more honking; however it issued another fix after that one it claims should “keep the noise down for our neighbors moving forward.”Sophia Tung, who has been running a 24/7 livestream of the Waymo parking lot is the resident who will be chatting with Nihalani. On Reddit, where she announced the chat, she said “The idea is to talk about what went wrong with all the honking at 4AM, how they fixed it, and what does it look like to run Waymo as an operation, as well as the engineering of how the cars work and see.”She’s currently taking suggestions on Reddit for other things to ask.
Recommended by Our Editors
If you want to catch the chat, you can watch it on Tung’s YouTube Live on Monday at 2:30pm PT / 5:30pm ET.
Get Our Best Stories!
Sign up for What’s New Now to get our top stories delivered to your inbox every morning.
This newsletter may contain advertising, deals, or affiliate links. Subscribing to a newsletter indicates your consent to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. You may unsubscribe from the newsletters at any time.
About Emily Price
Weekend Reporter
Read the latest from Emily Price
