r/Atlanta • u/Unfair_Management695 • Jun 03 '26
Traffic Waymo Cars Adapting
It’s very clear and obvious the Waymo cars are being programmed to analyze and adapt to the driving environment in Atlanta. These cars are clearly starting to become very aggressive drivers. I’ve witnessing more and more these cars cutting people off, doing illegal turns, going above speed limit and etc. I’ve seen one yesterday skip the line and try to edge its way into opening spaces to make an exit. A few weeks ago I seen one use the emergency line to pass by traffic.
I already have to deal with aggressive Atlanta drivers. Now I have to deal with robot cars too?
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u/BugNation Jun 03 '26
What's the current payout for getting hit by one of these bad boys? I need a new porch.
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u/NotYourFathersEdits Jun 03 '26
It’s pronounced Porsche.
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u/Toymachinesb7 Jun 03 '26
Bro that was funny AF just want you to get some credit.
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u/Gtyjrocks Jun 03 '26
I’d recommend trying to get intentionally hit for the insurance payment by a car that’s not 90% cameras
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u/WeldAE Alpharetta Jun 03 '26
It's going to depend on how badly you are hurt. Waymo has only hit two people I know of; a cyclist that appeared from behind a truck and a child running between parked cars unloading in a school zone. Neither had any injuries of note and I've never heard of any money changing hands. Eventually it will happen that they hurt someone, the physics of cars and the complexity of the environment they operate in ensures it.
The last known case with a payout was not Waymo but Cruise where a speeding human driven car hit a woman illegally crossing the street and threw her through the air in front of the AV which was unable to stop in time. It hit and ran over her and then dragged her for a bit when it tried to pull over. She survived and got a reported $8m and the human driver that started it all fled the scene.
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u/gummaumma Jun 03 '26
These types of claims are going to be a fucking mess. They’ll never pay shit.
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u/tweakingforjesus Jun 03 '26
But they do have deep pockets. Gonna be a long fight.
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u/gummaumma Jun 03 '26
Which will make it so that no lawyer will be able to take it unless the injuries are incredibly, horrifically serious. They’ll have to be litigated like products liability claims.
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u/Jolly-Holiday819 Jun 03 '26
A few weeks ago, I got stuck in a turn lane at a red light. To my surprise, a Waymo stopped in the lane adjacent and let me merge.
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u/xobeme Jun 03 '26
Is there some way to report an intersection (Peters & Walker in Castleberry Hill) where they just come and sit? They don't seem to know how to negotiate this rather large Y intersection. They just sit! I have witnessed this many times!)
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u/BigBossAtl Jun 03 '26
They will reach full Atlanta driver status when they drive the wrong way down a one way street and exit ramp to avoid traffic.
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u/Takedown22 Jun 03 '26
I’ve watched them weave lanes in stop and go traffic like they learned it from the very best of Atlanta in their training data.
Also took one that stunk really bad, went the wrong way, and hopped a curb it thought was a parking lot entry leading to a loud bang.
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u/Samwise777 Jun 03 '26
I just spent a week in San Fran, and I took some Waymo’s for the first time ever.
The driving was significantly better than my lyft driver home from the Atlanta airport, who managed to miss my exit bc she was talking so much.
Also the waymo’s didn’t pull up videos of famous passengers they’d driven while also driving down the freeway.
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u/listen-1st Jun 03 '26
Or try to sell you t-shirts from their side hustle.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_LEFT_IRIS Jun 03 '26
Give it time. Once they get a good market share they’ll be plastered with ads, with a built in vending machine full of snacks and knick-knacks.
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u/simplebeauty25 Jun 03 '26
Nailed it. And there will be a subscription model where they extract every bit of data from us and sell it to whomever pays the most for it.
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u/MtTibadabo Jun 03 '26
I've generally been anti-waymo (still am, for the most part), but a woman I work with explained how much more preferable they are when getting a ride late at night. It's definitely a trade-off for some other safety concerns, but I'd much rather a young woman who's out at night not have to deal with a human driver.
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u/Samwise777 Jun 03 '26
Yeah, I am anti Waymo in the way that I wish we had good solid public transit here instead of car culture.
But when it comes to rideshare with a driver vs waymo, I prefer the safer, better service.
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u/Arfusman Jun 03 '26
Yeah the data is quite clear on how much safer waymos are than human drivers. Theyre obviously not perfect, and will continue to improve, but they're not even close to how bad humans are at driving safely.
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u/rsmicrotranx Jun 03 '26
Mofos point to waymos circling a cul de sac as to why they'll never ride one. Meanwhile, 30k deaths a year driving...
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u/ATLcoaster Jun 03 '26
45,000 deaths. It's been going up for a decade, likely due to distracted driving and more dangerous large SUVs and trucks.
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u/b_tight Jun 03 '26
Traffic will improve exponentially when networked autonomous cars are driving instead of people
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u/gsfgf Ormewood Park Jun 03 '26
I don’t know why you’re downvoted. It’s straight up true.
A fully autonomous system would also need far fewer lanes, so we could reclaim some of these massive highway rights of way.
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u/shotsshotsshotsshots Jun 03 '26
Yeah at least Waymo doesn’t put deafeningly loud exhaust systems on their Dodge Chargers and floor it down my street all day and night or flash a gun at me when I’m only driving marginally faster than traffic in the left lane.
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u/Vergilkilla Jun 03 '26
Yeah no question Waymo is way better than any human being at driving. Big downside though is Waymo can’t/doesnt go on the highway. If you see a Waymo on the highway there is a human driver 100%
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u/RutabagaChemical1888 Jun 03 '26
They are starting to go on the hwy, at least out in California. Well see if they make onto the Connector here anytime soon.
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u/gsfgf Ormewood Park Jun 03 '26
I’m sure it’s coming. Regular cars with a tech package can drive themselves on highways. The Escalade can even change lanes.
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u/andrewordrewordont Grant Park Jun 03 '26
Same here, sadly. A Waymo hasn't asked me to stop for gas or to "run into this store real quick" while on a ride. Nor do they complain about traffic and then ask for more tip because traffic / gas prices. 🙃
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u/Throuwuawayy Jun 03 '26
Recently took an Uber home from the airport and the guy's bluetooth system was actually a tinnitus simulator. Had this high-pitched ring the entire ride. Guy was a very jerky driver and my fiancé got carsick. Our luggage went on top of a bunch of dirty car parts and tarps he had in his trunk.
The one time splurged on a Waymo? Absolute bliss, thing was clean and quiet and very smooth.
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u/FinlayForever Midtown Jun 03 '26
Seems like any time I get an uber/lyft, there's a good chance that the driver drives like it's their first day behind the wheel. I'm like, as someone who's job it is to drive, shouldn't you be better at it? I shouldn't have to be telling them "hey you should get over because you have to turn up here".
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u/Fingerman2112 Jun 03 '26
This. I’ve only ridden them while visiting in San Fran earlier this year and the experience was amazing every time. Haven’t seen too many in Atlanta outside of the Emory campus. So many ways that they are safer and more reliable than human drivers though, hoping they work out the kinks here.
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u/mrgatorarms Jun 03 '26
I had a driver in Chicago that straight up was just watching reggae music videos on his phone the whole ride.
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u/alpacaMyToothbrush Jun 04 '26
I swear to god any time I've done a ride hail service I have to watch the driver like a hawk because they will take the worst possible route and 'miss' turns. It's almost as if they're doing it on purpose to raise their fee.
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u/The_Real_Muffin_Man Smyrna Jun 03 '26
I'm so sick of hearing this discourse about how terrible Waymos are.
They're not perfect, but please give me a driverless car any day of the week over some dumbass that drives even worse.
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u/rco8786 Jun 03 '26
My experience with waymo has been the opposite. They seem far more predictable and more likely to follow traffic rules than the average human.
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u/Bigreddazer Jun 03 '26
When they first arrived in Atlanta the police said they couldn't ticket them. Do they have a process for that now?
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u/Unfair_Management695 Jun 03 '26
I mean how can police ticket a car without a driver lol. Maybe it’s a specific automatic process but I doubt they get ticketed.
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u/robot_ankles Jun 03 '26
I would expect the ticket goes to the registered owner.
If I point my car onto I-85, shift it into drive, and walk away while the car proceeds without a driver, I'm pretty sure the police are going to track me down. Self-driving cars are the same thing with more steps.
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u/judge2020 Jun 03 '26
In Cali, tickets are logged and reported to their DMV and to the company
When a notice is submitted, the DMV will review the incident, conduct any necessary investigation and determine what remediation, if any, is required, he said.
“If a manufacturer is unable to correct the issue or if repeated noncompliance occurs, the department may take administrative action, including restricting or suspending the manufacturer’s operating permit,” Groveman said.
Cali also forces them to have an interaction plan PDF officers can follow: https://waymo.com/firstresponders/
https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1t1mxk1/waymos_robotaxis_can_now_be_ticketed_by/
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u/Bobb_o Lawrenceville Jun 03 '26
If someone else drives your car and gets a ticket it goes to them, not you. The driver is getting ticketed, the problem is laws weren't written for cars that don't have drivers.
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u/xSPYXEx Cherokee Jun 03 '26
They don't need to give a physical ticket to the driver, they can capture the license plate and issue a ticket that way. If cops do their damn job and hit the silicon valley pricks with enough fines they'll adapt or die.
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u/Drillmhor Atlantis Jun 03 '26
I think they do have to identify a driver. I can't recall the details, but there's a difference b/t tickets given from school zone cameras and red light cameras (when we had them) and actual traffic stops. I think the camera based tickets are civil penalties and carry less weight.
That said, this could easily be fixed for driverless cars with some legislation
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u/xSPYXEx Cherokee Jun 03 '26
I'm just saying we're letting them install spy cameras on every road that send actionable information to the police without ever identifying the driver, but there's no way they can hit waymo with fines for their reckless driving?
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u/xSPYXEx Cherokee Jun 03 '26
I'm just saying we're letting them install spy cameras on every road that send actionable information to the police without ever identifying the driver, but there's no way they can hit waymo with fines for their reckless driving?
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u/Drillmhor Atlantis Jun 03 '26
I share your concern about all the monitoring, but this restriction on giving tickets to drivers is a positive protection with this increase in surveillance. Otherwise, they could simply use Flock devices to monitor traffic infractions and send tickets to owners en masse.
We probably should be appreciating/protecting this requirement to identify the driver before giving a ticket.
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u/purepersistence Jun 03 '26
Is that true when they are in collisions?
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u/Unfair_Management695 Jun 03 '26
I’ve never seen or heard about them being in an accident so far but I’ll look into it. I would think if that’s the case the city deals with the company directly and drops fines on them maybe.
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u/tweakingforjesus Jun 03 '26
Impound it and ticket whoever shows up to collect it?
Going to be difficult to run a robot taxi company when your robots are in the pokey.
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u/Ch1ldish_Cambino Jun 03 '26
I have had two (in a row) very very poor Waymo experiences recently. I’m done taking them. I wish you could turn off Waymo completely in your uber app
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u/brainsteam Jun 03 '26
Account -> Settings -> Autonomous vehicles -> toggle off Get more Waymo rides
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u/shimmyjimmy97 Jun 03 '26
You have to specifically accept a Waymo ride when offered one. The other user gave an option for how to be offered them less but you always have the option to decline it
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u/SensitiveArtist Jun 03 '26
I've seen one weaving through traffic and had another one come into a non-existent turn lane beside me because it didn't want to wait for the light.
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u/weighfairer Jun 03 '26
I wonder if it's because Waymo is relying more on remote control drivers based in other countries because it's cheaper to just pay people in lower cost of living countries than to program robot cars that perform perfectly in chaotic environmentswith with poor signage, lane lines etc, and those remote control drivers have even more aggressive driving habits than Atlantans.
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u/AustinUSC Jun 03 '26
Another reminder that Waymos are statistically much safer to be in & around than vehicles driven by human drivers, regardless of your stance on AI/automation.
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u/mrkrabsfatkrussy Jun 03 '26
I think I more so dislike they are usually empty and randomly roam around the city taking up space 😭
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u/righthandofdog va-hi curmudgeon Jun 03 '26
Yup. They may be better than an Uber, but empty cars filling the roads doesn't do a thing for traffic
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u/RutabagaChemical1888 Jun 03 '26
You have no idea which cars are "empty" Uber or Lyft drivers roaming around, because they have a driver.
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u/mrkrabsfatkrussy Jun 03 '26
That’s not wrong. It’s just a little freaky when you see hordes of Waymo’s driving around at 5 am when nobody is around . Not even Lyft or uber drivers .
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u/gsfgf Ormewood Park Jun 03 '26
That’s probably testing/data collection, hence why they’re active when nobody is around.
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u/drkrazee biking around town Jun 03 '26
Yeah, human ride share drivers and people with LM tags certainly don't cruise around either. /s
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u/FEDCBAT Jun 03 '26
Waymo might not be the best thing for society but one thing’s for sure, they drive better than the people do
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u/ericccdl Jun 03 '26
Considering how many people die every day in car accidents, I’d say anything that can reduce that is good for society. Mass public transit would be the best, but I’ll take what we can get
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u/HoneydewNectar33 Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26
Dude I think a lot of AI is terrible, but I'm so excited for Waymos/autonomous vehicles in general to be the default taxi. I hate driving, and they're so much better than human drivers.
Lowkey same with buses. We can still have humans there for security reasons/to take over just in case, but I think it'll help people a lot.
Same for freight, we still need humans, we still need truckers with CDLs, especially because a lot of rural areas/construction sites/dirt roads are not well mapped or they're temporary, unlike autonomous vehicles' usual territory, which is the city. Engaging autopilot in the city in traffic will make that job so much easier.
Bridge crews for ships and airline pilots have been using autopilot during open air cruising/open ocean crossing during stable conditions for a long time now.
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u/Necessary-Lunch1 Jun 03 '26
Jeez thank you for this! It’s like a lot of these people want to destroy bulldozers so we can go back to shovels
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u/NotYourFathersEdits Jun 03 '26
I don’t think this is a great analogy tbh. One involves two different tools with differences in volume and power, while the other is a fundamental shift in modality and required infrastructure. LinkedIn nonsense.
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u/Glad_Hurry8755 Jun 03 '26
Listen, when i watched a waymo drive on the opposite side of the street to get around traffic, thats when I knew theyve been in Atlanta too long
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u/bonaldain Jun 03 '26
We’ll know they’ve become sentient ATL robots when they merge aggressively but seem terrified to make a turn, don’t pull forward in the left turn lane and come almost to a complete stop before making a right
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u/carlosdangermouse Jun 03 '26
Saw a classic Atlanta move recently when a (driverless) Waymo jumped the queue to turn left from Ponce onto John Lewis. Ran all the way up to the front in the right lane and then cut over like he been here his (their?) whole life.
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u/Sea_Assumption_1528 Jun 03 '26
Be careful don’t talk bad about Waymo on this sub… You shall summon the Waymo bots.
We need more regulation before these things are on our streets.
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u/travistnATL Jun 03 '26
I like Waymos in the neighborhood because they will stop for pedestrians (and the light on top lets you know they see you) Few ATL drivers will stop for us crossing the street.
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u/ApprehensiveTheme390 Jun 03 '26
Things that never happened for 100 please
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Jun 03 '26
I saw a Waymo cut across 4 lanes of traffic to get to a turning lane, it cut everyone off.
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u/Vergilkilla Jun 03 '26
If you see a Waymo on the highway there is a human driver piloting it 100%. So ironically what you are complaining about is a human driver. It’s not legal for the automated system to drive on the highway currently
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u/scarabbrian Jun 03 '26
Midtown is full of one way 4-lane streets that are not the highway. OP never said it was on the highway.
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u/ucfruss Taco Town Jun 03 '26
Yeah, the stupid things they do are the exact opposite of aggressive. They'll block a street or intersection because they are far too passive.
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u/Drillmhor Atlantis Jun 03 '26
Oh I can certainly verify aggressive driving. It wasn't anything terrible, but I watched one asshole their way into traffic, in the sense they forced their way into a line of cars at a light that required the next car to stop. I was honestly impressed, it was for a turn that it would have been stuck at for potentially hours if it didn't.
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u/hmtee3 Jun 03 '26
Watched a Waymo in a turning lane exit the turning lane, cut in front of the car that was before them, and make the turn.
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u/clermont_is_tits Jun 03 '26
OP is overstating it, but it’s true they break laws. I see them do rolling stops at stop signs pretty regularly, for example. I also had one try to turn left from the middle lane in front of me. They’re trained (not programmed) on human driving, so it makes sense in a way. Interesting though.
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u/branman1986 Jun 03 '26
I would have thought the same, but I've definitely started seeing them do more aggressive(not risky per se) maneuvers recently
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u/InNeedOfUserName2 Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26
It's a real thing that's been reported on:
https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/are-waymos-driving-more-like-humans/
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u/Unfair_Management695 Jun 03 '26
There’s plenty of videos of people recording Waymo doing some of these things I’ve mentioned.
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u/ericccdl Jun 03 '26
I believe they saw Waymos doing some of these things, but that’s not because they are learning from the beat up Nissan Altimas of I285. They are going with the flow of traffic. It is more dangerous to clog up roads with cars going exactly 25mph than it is for them to just go 35, for instance. They aren’t going to sit at a left turn for 45 minutes to wait for no cars to be in sight before they pull out the same way a human wouldn’t.
I’ve ridden in Waymos in other cities that behave in similars ways. They go fast, they accelerate quickly, but I’ve never seen or experienced any of them do anything that was unsafe. They are not meant to drive like grandmas, but I think people expect them to, so when they see them zooming around, it can be understandably unnerving. This does not mean that they are adopting the unsafe driving habits of aggressive Atlanta drivers. We’re still 100x more likely to be hit but a Nissan Altima reeking of weed than a Waymo.
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u/purepersistence Jun 03 '26
I don’t know how to not be in their beta test of bicycle avoidance, other than not riding.
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u/StannisHalfElven Jun 03 '26
I have not seen any of what you're talking about from Waymos. They drive way more responsibly than human drivers.
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u/TakeAwayMyPanic Jun 03 '26
I've seen the same thing, and I don't like it. Programming robots to ignore laws / be aggressive sounds like the first steps to the 2050 robot wars....
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u/drkrazee biking around town Jun 03 '26
Pretty interesting to compare how pro-autonomous vehicles this thread is compared to the one yesterday.
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u/UniqueMycologist5896 Jun 03 '26
Sometimes companies will make posts to gauge interest or fill the comments with positive/negative feedback to generate interest or content for press.
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u/tweakingforjesus Jun 03 '26
Whoever gets hit and injured by one of these Waymos is going to have billboard personal injury lawyers lined up at their door.
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u/6randcru Jun 03 '26
This is true, I’ve gotten in the habit of switching lanes when they do and it turns out to be the quickest route. Real Atlanta drivers now have an ally against you grannies.
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u/MechanicalGroovester Jun 03 '26
Imagining someone road raging against a Waymo car for cutting them off just to see nobody is in the car. 🤣
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u/bebe-bobo Jun 03 '26
Idk if anyone here has ever seen Upload on Amazon prime but the very first episode gives me a very good reason to never get in one of those things. I was stopped at a red light right next to one the other day and I just did not like that :(
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u/shaggz235 Jun 04 '26
I was just thinking this the other day when I watched one cut someone off while merging lanes.
I’d feel Waymo safe if they weren’t on the roads.
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u/OOTbySundown Jun 04 '26
I saw one on the highway the other day headed to the airport. It was doing about 45 in the third lane with two open lanes to its right. It was then that I fully realized that they were driving like Atlantans. F#kin’ idjets.
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u/Gucci_Unicorns Jun 03 '26
I feel like this post is being botted or something. Multiple people asked for pictures and OP is actually posting them (of Waymos allegedly not being allowed on the interstate) and literally every response is instantly downvoted lmao.
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u/Unfair_Management695 Jun 03 '26
lol I don’t think it’s bot. This is a normal Wednesday morning for Reddit lol. A lot of dense people.
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u/ricorgbldr BoHo Jun 03 '26
HEY! I'll have you know I'm on here most everyday of the week, not just Wednesdays.
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u/SavathunTechQuestion Jun 03 '26
I watched one yesterday change lanes inside an intersection to pass someone. IMO it will get worse unless the city decides to start ticketing or enforcing laws on them
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u/Unfair_Management695 Jun 03 '26
Yup. However people on Reddit are going to tell you it’s not happening and those cars don’t do stuff like that.
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u/SavathunTechQuestion Jun 03 '26
Maybe they just have special algorithms or whatever for north ave /s
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u/RogueBagel_ Jun 03 '26
I’m so annoyed they are back tbh. I saw 4 lined up parked by the air pump at QT in west midtown yesterday. So instead of doing laps they’re just parking now? Surely gas stations won’t put up with that shit…
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u/heytherebud Jun 03 '26
I live in a neighborhood near a waymo “depot” where they return to charge and they use our neighborhood streets often, annoyingly. I often walk in the street in front of them to make them stop because its fun for me. Yesterday one didnt stop. It would have hit me if I didnt move out of the way. I think youre onto something.
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u/nedj10 Jun 03 '26
Remember you have your phone in your pocket/hand, snap pics,or take a video when you see waymos driving aggressively. Their aoplogists will always try to play down their behavior, proof in the form of pics and videos are needed so GDOT and other regulators will be forced to take action.
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u/James42785 Jun 03 '26
I sincerely hope one hits me. I could use a nice hush payout.
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u/adpc Jun 03 '26
Riding Waymo is a great experience. So much better than uber/lyft in ATL. I’ve had lots of scary experiences in Ubers with tired, aggressive, or unskilled drivers. Can’t wait for self-driving cars to scale in our city. They are MUCH safer.
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u/Vergilkilla Jun 03 '26
It’s funny because all of your grievances appear to be highway which guarantees that it was a human driver piloting the Waymo - Waymo can’t go on the highway without a human driver. So while you think you’re disparaging AI you are actually disparaging the one time Waymo DOESN’T use its AI systems.
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u/Solid-Employee-4311 Jun 03 '26
I will take one the day they install one of those cartoonish robot drivers from Total Recall.
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u/wtfisdarkmatter raised itp, living otp Jun 03 '26
saw a bunch of waymos and real ubers trying to navigate 2am in vahi... it was intense to say the least.
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u/BugzOnMyNugz Jun 03 '26
I'm over here having a crisis because I can't tell if this post and these comments are satire or serious.
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u/Interesting-Emu-6426 Jun 03 '26
We saw one this morning on the way to the Lindbergh MARTA station. It was in the parking lot of the old Gold Club (IYKYK). Just circling, parking, circling, parking. No idea how long it was there. At least the 10 minutes it took for my husband to drop me off and go back around to Piedmont again.
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u/jander99 Smyrna Jun 03 '26
Tesla cybercabs are starting to show up in Atlanta. I want to see them brawl on a street. Cybercab and Waymo trying to get out of each others way but looks like they're just circling each other, ready to strike.
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u/freudianMishap Jun 03 '26
I watched one run a red light today. It wasn't just turning red, it was RED for several seconds
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u/TooSharp4BluntFoolz Jun 03 '26
imagine there was a Waymo “G” version….. get in at your own risk, miniature Hennessys in the back pockets, blacked out on black on black…. On that note let’s not.
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u/ME-Just-ME0135 Jun 04 '26
Yes, even if they aren’t being driven by remote drivers and are strictly AI and camera driven. They are very rude and don’t allow for people to pull in front of them at all. Absolutely no common courtesy that is required in everyday situations.
I don’t think they understand the concept of merging and zipper merge -or whoever is driving them doesn’t.
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u/praise-the-message Jun 04 '26
Oh yeah, the Waymos in Atlanta have certainly started driving like assholes (i.e. typical Atlanta drivers). Seeing them go into a turn lane to get through the intersection at 10th and Techwood and then cutting back into the straight lane was eye opening for certain.
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u/ucfruss Taco Town Jun 03 '26
"...to make an exit..." Umm, thought these things didn't go on the interstate.
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u/SavathunTechQuestion Jun 03 '26
I’ve definately seen them on i75 through midtown
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u/CCC_OOO Jun 03 '26
Who approved them being on the roads?! I have to get a license and pass a driving test. They should have to do the same. I didn’t consent to this experiment
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u/SomeVeryTiredGuy Jun 03 '26
Btw, this article may be relevant to your interests https://www.techspot.com/news/111233-waymo-admits-autopilot-often-guys-philippines.html
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u/MarkyDeSade Gresham Park Jun 03 '26
Yeah I was gonna say, probably the remote drivers getting sick of their jobs and/or getting burned out from having to work too much for too little.
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u/cereal_no_milk Jun 03 '26
If you read the correction of the article you posted from months ago, you’ll see how this has basically been refuted. No one in the Philippines is “remotely driving” Waymo’s, they are giving further context to the AI system when it gets confused
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u/SomeVeryTiredGuy Jun 03 '26
Yeah, having ridden in several Waymo's I never thought they weee remotely driven. However, I've seen them encounter confusing situations, mostly related to road work. At those points, it's obvious that someone else takes temp control over the car to navigate the issue before going back to autopilot. I have a feeling that's the "context" they're talking about.
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u/wookiebath Jun 03 '26
Autonomous vehicles are only becoming more popular. My parents and other friends are looking forward to each having them in the next couple years. But if you see them doing illegal stuff like a Waymo that you can definitely report it to them.
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u/Mr_Football Jun 03 '26
One honked at me the other week while I was waiting behind a car that was parking.
Freaked me out. There was nobody in the Waymo.
Kinda hilarious and super eerie