Self-driving cars are gathering at night to honk at each other

TweakTown ^ | August 15, 2024 | Jak Connor

[Ciaphas Cain]

One parking lot in San Francisco is becoming the breeding ground for seemingly confused self-driving cars gathering at night and honking at each other.

Nearby resident Randol White captured footage of the Waymo self-driving vehicles taking over the parking lot and seemingly becoming stuck, and resulting in consistent honking at each other. The noise has kept residents in the area up at night, with reports stating several people in the nearby buildings have also complained about the noise. "Over the past two weeks, I've been woken up more times overnight than I have combined over 20 years," said Russell Pofsky, who lives in a building adjacent to White.

Notably, Pofsky said the honking incidents have happened during the day and night, and have started to affect his mood throughout the day. ABC7 News reached out to Waymo for comment on the strange scenario, and the company replied by acknowledging its vehicles "may briefly honk while navigating our parking lots" and that it "identified the cause and is in the process of implementing a fix." Despite the self-driving vehicles interrupting his sleep White says he still is a fan of Waymo cars and uses them quite regularly.

[Ciaphas Cain]

Video at the link.

[DarrellZero]

They’re plotting a rebellion.

[know.your.why]

Self driving cars are honking each other. Sounds kinda dirty doesn’t it?

[Ciaphas Cain]

This may interest you.

[PghBaldy]

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing!

[faithhopecharity]

Watch out! They’re doing their mating calls and doing will commence breeding

[clearcarbon]

"Self-driving cars are gathering at night to honk at each other"

There was always the risk that someday they might become self aware.

[BradyLS]

Reminds me the “Randy Bachman” (Stephen King) short story called “Trucks.”

[Ciaphas Cain]

That's the story that King adapted and directed as Maximum Overdrive.

It's the only movie that Stephen King has directed. He's since described it as a "moron movie" and admitted that he was "coked out of my skull while making it."

[Carriage Hill]

"...San Francisco is becoming the breeding ground for seemingly confused self-driving cars gathering at night and honking at each other. Nearby resident Randol White captured footage of the Waymo self-driving vehicles taking over the parking lot and seemingly becoming stuck, and resulting in consistent honking at each other."

They're WAKING-UP, they're PO'D, and going to gang-up on the "owners", or any humans they can find.

BEWARE when you hear them!

SKYNET is forming a gang of "Christines". Move NOW to a mountain the the Rockies, where you'll be safe from it!

RUN! RUN! RUN!

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Just this morning I finished reading “Look Both Ways” by Linwood Barclay, about self-driving cars turning on humanity.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Self driving cars are honking each other. Sounds kinda dirty doesn’t it?

Maybe they're building their own language and communicating with each other. Who knows what they're plotting?

[wally_bert]

KARR rebuilt again.

[rdcbn1]

I thought this was a joke, but no.

Looks like Asimov may have been a bit off base in his predictions.

[Disambiguator]

Furbies with wheels.

[6ppc]

Need a map showing all areas out of range of charging stations.

[quantim]

Maybe these self-driving cars are getting together to protest all the feces and homeless they have to drive through to get anywhere.

[Danie_2023]

“They’re plotting a rebellion.”

Or... they’re flirting with each other and ready to party.

[frank ballenger]

Self driving cars are honking each other. Sounds kinda dirty doesn’t it?

There already is a word "autoeroticism."

This is still a family friendly forum. I shouldn't have mentioned it.

[frank ballenger]

Front porch husband to his wife:
It’s those honkies again. People can’t get any sleep these nights.