"Anyone with a car, or anyone who's ever borrowed or rented car for that matter, in San Francisco, knows the sometimes painful exercise of hunting for a parking space in their neighborhood when it's time for a street-cleaning day, or when returning to town from a commute or a trip. Residents learn the tricks, like particular windows of time after a street-cleaning session when it's open season on entire blocks."
"Grochmal observed not one but two Waymos, one after the other, come to occupy the same one-hour parking spot on York Street in the Mission on Monday, staying for around 20 minutes while waiting to be summoned somewhere. One Waymo sat, sensors whirring, in the spot on York, and when it left, another Waymo soon arrived and took the same spot so clearly they've been programmed to know where such convenient idling spaces may be."
Waymo vehicles have been observed occupying curbside parking spaces while idle between fares, often taking short-term one-hour spots. This behavior helps conserve battery life and prevents vehicles from circling and clogging traffic, but it puts cars in high-demand areas where residents rely on permit parking and time windows around street-cleaning days. Sequential occupation of the same spot by multiple Waymos suggests the vehicles are programmed to locate convenient idling spaces. The practice could provoke resident frustration in San Francisco, where parking scarcity and street-cleaning schedules make curbside spaces particularly valuable.
Read at sfist.com
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