Waymo keeps parking in tow-away zones in Austin. It has been fined 64 times.
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Waymo collected 83 parking citations ($9,325) in Austin, with 64 tow-away zone violations. One car parked in a disabled space ($519 fine). The same error is repeating fleet-wide.
Waymo’s robotaxis have accumulated 83 parking citations and $9,325 in fines in Austin since the fleet arrived in 2024, according to city records obtained by The Wall Street Journal. The company has paid most of them. The more revealing number is 64: the count of violations involving tow-away zones, far more than any other category. That concentration suggests the cars are repeating the same navigational mistake across the fleet.
A human driver parking badly is a local nuisance. The same behaviour appearing across a robotaxi service is a system-level bug. One Waymo car parked in a disabled space and received a $519 fine.Others were cited for expired meters and double parking. But the tow-away zone cluster is the problem that...
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