The early morning honking from driverless Waymo cars at a San Francisco parking lot has finally stopped. Now, the company is working to explain and mend fences.
San Francisco resident Sophia Tung has been running a live stream of the Waymo parking lot outside her home since July. That’s when the company’s autonomous car started waking her and other residents up early each morning as they honked at each other going into and out of a nearby parking lot.
But on Monday afternoon, the live stream was interrupted as Tung could have a conversation with one of Waymo’s executives.
Vishay Nihalani, director of products and operations at Waymo, agreed to answer questions from Tung about the way the cars work and why the annoying honking was happening. What she was getting at with these questions is why the cars were honking at each other so early in the morning.
The …