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Waymo was slapped with nearly 600 parking tickets last year in SF alone


Waymo now has more than 300 driverless vehicles zipping passengers around San Francisco, but while they follow traffic laws, parking is another matter

Waymo now has more than 300 driverless vehicles zipping passengers around San Francisco, but while they follow traffic laws, parking is another matter entirely. According to city records cited by the Washington Post, these rolling robots racked up 589 citations totaling $65,065 in fines last year for parking violations that ranged from blocking traffic to street-cleaning restrictions to parking in prohibited areas. A Waymo spokesman tells The Post that the company is working on solving the problem, but we’d hazard a guess that won’t happen until every car is driverless.

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