Waymo’s Paret ticket problem: Expert Details Possibilities to combat bad robotaxi parking spaces in San Francisco

San Francisco (KGO) – Since more autonomous cars are to come online, the solution of traffic jams and parking problems from San Francisco, which are caused by robotaxis, has become more urgent.

The Waymo Driverles Robotaxis from Alphabet has routinely violated the parking rules.

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Waymo vehicles that drive themselves received 589 tickets for parking violations in 2024. According to the records of the San Francisco municipal traffic authority, as reported by the Washington Post. The vehicles were fined of 65,065 US dollars for violations such as the disability of traffic, which do not obey cleaning restrictions and parking in forbidden areas.

The robotaxis is equipped with detailed internal cards that help you make decisions about where you can stop, turn and park. According to Sam Abuelsamid, VP of market research from telemetry, some technical software adjustments could help reduce the number of parking quotes that Waymo receives.

Cooperation with communities on map updates

However, responsibility is not only limited to Robotaxi companies to improve their systems. According to Abuelsamide, closer cooperation with communities could drastically reduce these traffic violations when updating these cards.

“Regardless of whether it is San Francisco or another city to understand where the places can stop, not only for parking, but also for pick -up areas, for the access of curb customers. Some cities may have different rules for the access of curb customers. Therefore, it is important that a company that wants to work with the city to work with the city and ensure that it ensures and ensure that it have to prevent the vehicle. “

Update an electronic API

In a technical place like the Bay area there seems to be an application for everything. An API or an application programming interface is a number of rules and specifications with which various software applications can communicate and interact with each other so that you can share data and functions.

According to Abuelsamide, APIs that enable robotaxi cars to carry out new updates of data records can be smoothed for the latest rules and regulations. “Conversely, it is important for cities that these types of services are interested in keeping their information up to date in order to keep them up to date. Perhaps you have a database about where the parking zones are and to know parking zones and provide them with an API, an API, an application programming interface that likes companies, or zootous that is based on this data.

Live 24/7 updates

Robotaxis is not automatically aware of the daily changes in the city, and sometimes the traffic rules, where parking and stopping are permitted due to important events such as parades, VIP visits and festivals.

“Since this information sometimes changes. Sometimes cities change configurations or say: ‘Ok, no parking in this block that day, since it may take place.

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At the moment, parking cards are one of the only ways to achieve a fine robotaxis in California. According to state law, robotaxis of violations of moving violations are immune, since tickets have to be issued to a human driver. From July 2026, however, this will change, whereby the law enforcement authorities can result in “indications of autonomous vehicles non -compliance”.