{"id":814891,"date":"2024-12-26T02:18:49","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T08:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/26\/a-waymo-robotaxi-got-stuck-in-a-roundabout-loop\/"},"modified":"2024-12-26T02:18:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T08:18:49","slug":"a-waymo-robotaxi-got-stuck-in-a-roundabout-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/26\/a-waymo-robotaxi-got-stuck-in-a-roundabout-loop\/","title":{"rendered":"A Waymo robotaxi got stuck in a roundabout loop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\">Roundabouts. They trapped Clark Griswold in \u201cNational Lampoon\u2019s European Vacation\u201d and now they\u2019ve tripped up a Waymo robotaxi.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/SelfDrivingCars\/comments\/1hc0kit\/waymo_gets_stuck_in_a_roundabout_loop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">video<\/a> is circulating on social media showing a Waymo robotaxi going round and round on a roundabout \u2014 as if it is stuck in a loop. A Waymo spokesperson told TechCrunch there were no passengers onboard the vehicle in the video and said the company has already addressed the issue by deploying a software update to its fleet.<\/p>\n<p>TechCrunch has asked Waymo for more information regarding the underlying logic that led to this strange behavior and how engineers ended up correcting for such a unique scenario.<\/p>\n<p>Videos capturing odd robotaxi behavior have become more prevalent in the past year, particularly in San Francisco \u2014 a hub of autonomous vehicle activity. For instance, earlier this year, one woman set up a livestream that showed Waymo vehicles <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/10\/15\/the-woman-who-filmed-waymos-honking-robotaxis-got-an-apology-promo-then-spent-all-day-using-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">honking<\/a> all night in a parking lot near her San Francisco apartment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> Rebecca Bellan<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/12\/12\/a-waymo-robotaxi-got-stuck-in-a-roundabout-loop\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roundabouts. They trapped Clark Griswold in \u201cNational Lampoon\u2019s European Vacation\u201d and now they\u2019ve tripped up a Waymo robotaxi. A video is circulating on social media showing a Waymo robotaxi going round and round on a roundabout \u2014 as if it is stuck in a loop. A Waymo spokesperson told TechCrunch there were no passengers onboard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":814892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111273,32003],"tags":[14184,9300],"class_list":["post-814891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-robotaxi","category-waymo","tag-robotaxi","tag-waymo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}