Robotaxis are racking up tickets in San Francisco

  • Waymo vehicles received 589 parking tickets in 2024
  • The autonomous cars were slapped with $65K in parking ticket fees
  • Violations include obstructing traffic, disobeying street cleaning rules
Two Waymo driverless taxis passing one another on a street

Two Waymo driverless taxis stop before passing one another on a San Francisco street on Feb. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Terry Chea, File)

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(NewsNation) — Driverless taxis, autonomous vehicles, robotaxis — whatever you want to call them, the high-tech cars are racking up parking tickets.

San Francisco is a hot spot for Waymo vehicles, which operate without a human driver, but it seems the cars don’t always play by the rules.

Waymo vehicles racked up 589 parking tickets in 2024 and incurred more than $65,000 in parking ticket fees, according to San Francisco’s Municipal Transportation Agency.

In Los Angeles, where the company started, Waymo driverless vehicles received an additional 75 tickets and picked up another $584 in penalties.

The violations included obstructing traffic, disobeying street cleaning restrictions and parking in prohibited areas, according to the Washington Post’s reporting.

According to Waymo spokesman Ethan Teicher, the cars are designed “to take the safest action available during the few minutes we are picking up or dropping off riders, which is when many of these parking citations occurred.”

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