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The great nightly Waymo honk-a-thon<\/a> \u2014 in which the company’s robotaxis erupted into a chorus of honking at night’s end in a San Francisco parking lot\u2014 was resolved, then not. Now it is again.<\/p>\n\n

The backstory: Software engineer Sophia Tung set up a livestream<\/a> of the parking lot that captured the robotaxis streaming in to park \u2014 and honk \u2014 for up to an hour around 4 a.m.  <\/p>\n\n

Waymo last week issued a software patch to ensure the robotaxis \u2014 often in close quarters \u2014 would not honk at each other. But at 4 a.m. Saturday morning, the livestream captured, yes, more honking.<\/p>\n\n

Now, another patch has been issued, per an interview Monday between Tung and Waymo Director of Product and Operations Vishay Nihalani on her livestream. Nihalani explained that while it makes a lot of sense for Waymos to honk on public roads, the group honking was an unintended consequence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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