Autonomous cars started piling up on a street in San Francisco

A quiet street in San Francisco has been frequented by autonomous cars for some time now. It's a dead end, but the cars arrive, beep, make a U-turn and drive away. The cars, which bring a dash of craziness to local life, are owned by Waymo.

The strange four-wheeled visitors appear in the dead-end street both day and night, locals complain. Each car that hits the cul-de-sac leaves fairly quickly, but another one shows up a few minutes later to do the same thing. And while there are pauses in these appearances, overall the invasion of autonomous cars doesn't stop.

Several times it has happened that cars have stood in line, as if completely confused by the presence of a dead end, area residents note. For some, it's "a little inconvenient"; for others, it's "a little strange." The street itself is small - the kind that serves only one block - and with a speed limit of 30 km/h. In other words, there is no obvious danger from autonomous cars (yet).

The frequent visits of autonomous cars caused a little stir at first, but so far the locals can only speculate what exactly causes such "interest" of the cars. As it turns out, drivers of errant autonomous cars follow the instructions they receive and there is little they can do about it.

This phenomenon has been observed for several weeks already. It is clear that it was caused by some kind of algorithm error in routing, but it would be silly to deny that the situation is amusing.

Source: cbs

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