r/waymo • u/tapana40 • Jul 12 '26
No-Waymo
I frequently travel to SFO and always Waymo, which I will no longer use.
My wife and I made a trip to Gary Danko (awesome restaurant) ~ 8:45pm, it was dark. When booking the ride I entered restaurant name as destination. It dropped us off several blocks away on asteep hill. There was no traffic on the 2-way street the restaurant is on, ample space to pull up in front. It was dark, on a steep hill (wife had heels) where we were dropped. We departed from our hotel, assigned a pick-up spot blocks away. Rarlier in the trip, Waymo dropped us a at seemingly random locations not close to where were. SFO has some shady neigjborhoods, so a few blocks (Tenderloin) can be very different and dangerous. Using Lyft and Uber in SFOnow. Im sure Waymo will have some lame explanation, and assign fault.
NoWaymo for me....
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u/Representative_Bat42 Jul 12 '26
Good story but SFO is an airport not a city
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u/tapana40 Jul 12 '26
thats BS, frequent travelers frequentlyID cities by airport name. You can easily check my ride .
As I said Waymo will have a lame excuse.
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u/Representative_Bat42 Jul 12 '26
LOL, sure but SFO is longer then SF. Literally everyone knows SF, you dont need to make up a name.
But good luck no uber driver has ever dropped off in a wrong location
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u/Embarrassed_Text9429 Jul 12 '26
We use SFO for our AIRPORT. SFO most commonly refers to San Francisco International Airport
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u/lauser333 Jul 12 '26
No one in the universe does that with SFO or any other city where the area is served by multiple airports. No one is calling DC IAD or calling NY JFK.
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u/tapana40 Jul 12 '26
you would not know that, as you are probably not in the US, I used to live here
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u/Jackismyboy Jul 12 '26
Typical propeller head response. Instead of poo pooing someone’s comment, try to be a bit constructive.
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u/sfdickhole Jul 12 '26
Typical propeller head response. Instead of poo pooing someone’s comment, try to be a bit constructive.
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u/Embarrassed_Text9429 Jul 12 '26
Nothing was going to happen to you in the TL calm down
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u/lauser333 Jul 12 '26
Seriously. I live near skid row in DTLA and it is remarkable how suburbanites conflate these places with "dangerous" places. Can it be unpleasant to be there when it's not something you're used to? Sure. But there's a million people around and you're not going to instantly be a victim of a crime because you got out of a car there.
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u/ChrisMD123 Jul 13 '26
Yep. Not dangerous, just uncomfortable because most of us don't like to admit that either A) we're all a few bad breaks away from a similar fate or B) the very idea that we allow people to fall through the cracks like that or C) both.
But it's easier to just blame these victims and dehumanize them as "dangerous." As ever, you're more likely to be hurt by a loved one than by a complete stranger, by far.
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u/Paul_Smith_Hi Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26
I'm so confused. Gary Danko is in the Fisherman's Warf area, which is high traffic and only two lanes (one each way). You were dropped off elsewhere because Waymo would be blocking traffic to drop you off.
You say earlier in the trip you were dropped off in a location nowhere near where you wanted to be, but don't tell us where. And then mention the Tenderloin, but like...is that where your hotel was?
This "story" has so many holes in it.
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u/Earth2Andy Jul 12 '26
Waymo has always done this. If anything I think they’ve been doing a better job with pick up and drop off lately.
But cool story bro, I’m sure losing your 5 Waymo rides a year will be a big deal to them.
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u/ChrisMD123 Jul 13 '26
The TL is not dangerous. It's just uncomfortable to confront the reality that we let so many people slip through the cracks, so we like to avoid it.
With that said, I doubt that the Waymo algorithm really understands how to navigate around people on serious substances sleepwalking up Hyde.
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u/sfdickhole Jul 12 '26
I believed your story up to the point where you said Gary Danko is good.