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Repeat ~mile away: SFFD Station 41, 1325 Leavenworth "When your Waymo glitches in San Francisco sat in the middle of the road. We saw a fire truck the car stopped and are now sat with traffic driving round us. On the call to support !" OP: tiktok.minitravellers

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 13h

iirc, Waymo has reported 2 or 3 crashes that were just flat tires from road debris or driving over curbs or into ditches. In each incident the robot was towed.

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 13h

A Waymo robot w passenger pulled over bc of a flat tire. A telop cancelled the trip and told the passenger she could book another robot. IDK why he didn't offer to book it. "I made it to my final destination but I ended up having to take a Lyft to get there!" OP: tiktok.courtneykatrice, Phoenix

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 15h

Waymo robots have a long history of hitting chains and other entry/exit controls, esp automated gates/arms. It was part of one of their NHTSA recalls, though, as with most of their recalls, the crashes have continued post "fix." bsky.app/profile/anic...

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 15h

A Tesla robotaxi could not handle an ordinary chain across a parking lot exit, so a human telop drove it away from the chain: 3200 block of Samuell Blvd, Dallas, Texas Waymo has a similar and maybe worse problem w chains at/across parking lot exits. OP: x.reggieoverton, 4x speed

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 18h

Another Waymo robot used their standard & illegal 'hit me' maneuver to make another turn from a side street onto a major street: 4th St and Jesse, San Francisco They have been doing this at least as long as they have been uncrewed (2022) in SF. Many videos of it esp in SoMa. OP: ig.bendaycolorado

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"He was genuinely YELLING at the Waymo, we were just all excited for it to move" OP: tiktok.lil.soso_ A telop was prob excited too. Waymo relies on multiple layers of AI to misunderstand clear (to ppl) hand signals. Moravec's paradox just got a $5 billion loan. Map bias is a helluva ADS drug/bug.

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And sometimes in/into fresh pavement, eg: bsky.app/profile/anic...

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

[put up] "Plenty of signs came in hot passing the flagger. ...There was a couple in the backseat" OP: tiktok.j_dlt.z71, Santa Clara, California There are dozens of videos and/or photos of Waymo robots mistakenly driving on unfinished pavement.

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

OP didn't say, though it might have been him. They are suspiciously varied and well spread out as if for cinematic effect.

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"It was sitting sideways across the lanes, moving forward and backward like it couldn't figure out where to go" OP: tiktok.farkentan 1100 block of El Camino Real, Mountain View, California ~2 miles from Waymo HQ. El Camino is ~50 feet wide there. Perhaps still not quite ready for a driving test.

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Another Waymo robot got out of the way of an emergency vehicle by driving through the intersection: Ross Ave and Akard St, Dallas If the robot was stopped at a red light when the ambulance approached, then this might have been ~correct behavior, though it may have taken a while. OP: tiktok.lajea0

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Yesterday in Downtown Miami" OP: tiktok.the_asher_hours

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Teslans habitually create confusion to mask poor decisions, from the top down. Regardless, arguing about sensors without even knowing their specs is kinda pointless. Waymo may need more sensing low in front for floods & snow and underneath for safety, eg KitKat was underneath. Huge blind spot.

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Tesla's reported one crash of their ADS w an animal, a dog in daylight, as of ~mid-August. Musk's explanation is nonsensical. Texas gets dark well before 10 pm. fwiw, nearly all Waymo's animal crashes have been at night, ie Waymo's lidar is not saving all the family pets. bsky.app/profile/anic...

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Zoox robots didn't stand a chance in this melee. OP: tikto.tylerlivevegas

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You quoted Nvidia's vice president of automotive misrepresenting both Waymo's hw and ops redundancies, ie both of these statements are demonstrably false: “If any single thing goes wrong on the car, there’s a backup” “Even if they can’t complete the mission with the car, there’s a backup car”

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"waymo did not care there were two cops pointing guns at a person! luckily, it left because four more cop cars came after" OP: tiktok.ruhbekuh, Los Angeles "AVs interfering with law enforcement...is unacceptable" Jonathan Morrison, Administrator of NHTSA, July 8, 2026

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think they take <hour to fast charge, though I don't recall Waymo saying how much time they spend charging. Most of them are turned off.

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Waymo's largest depot was ~full at ~2:30 pm today: 201 Toland St, SF Waymo robots spend most of their time parked. In 2023, Waymo applied to make the building on the left (301 Toland) a private parking garage for their depot employees. SFBOS unanimously rejected it. OP: reddit.techno-phil-osoph

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Also, buried in articles about this is a claim Amazon is building a data center at the old Recology facility they bought at 900 7th Street, except they've always planned it to be a distribution center for deliveries, not a data center. Amazon's way too cheap to build the expensive kinda DC in SF.

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

More like political posturing. AFAIK, only one data center of significance has been built in San Francisco in the 21st century (400 Paul). SF has few/~4 ~major data centers bc of economics not politics. SF gets nearly all its compute same as water, food, and electricity, from where it's cheaper.

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yet another (146+) Wrong Way Waymo in a construction zone and didn't stop until it had to else crash: 1500 block of Broadway, Nashville, Tennessee At least the high frequency of similar robot failures has given Waymo telops a lot (tens of millions) of incident experience. OP: tiktok.anchoredinov

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A when not if: Another failed perpendicular Waymo robot "blocked the entrance to the Apple Visitor Center...for a good 30-40 mins...lots of people taking selfies and wondering if it was on purpose" OP: reddit.LifeOk6872 Apple world HQ, Pruneridge Ave, Santa Clara, California

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Prob depends on whether the harm/crashes alarm NHTSA enough to act. Waymo has pretty effectively captured state regulators. Also, Waymo's bike lane violations get most of the attention, but they also illegally use fire lanes, bus stops, no stopping anytime zones, etc. bsky.app/profile/anic...

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If they do and there are related crashes, NHTSA would prob recall them, as they did Tesla FSD for automated speeding in 2023 and for rolling stops in 2022.

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

An old thread on this w focus on San Francisco where for years Waymo's had by far their densest deployment. There's a video ~daily from other geos where someone complains about being stuck behind a wall of Waymo robots driving ~at the speed limit. Parking lots maybe worse. bsky.app/profile/anic...

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

One slower robot on a busy multilane road may be an annoyance, but the AV mfg plan, intent, and financial imperative is to keep increasing the number/density of robots until they and their behavior dominate, fully roboticizing local driving culture. Lotta videos of it from Waymo's mature geos.

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Waymo 5:30 rush hour in Nashville. All had to drive into left lane to get around this Waymo. The Waymo had stopped and was angled towards the ditch." OP: x.SilverSands2511 Thompson Lane by Mashburn Rd, Nashville, Tennessee It stopped in the bike lane too.

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

At least 9 Waymo robots failed at another level crossing signal: 100 block of NE 29th St, Miami, Florida At least 3 robots had hazard lights on, so they knew they'd failed and should have alerted telops. Waymo has never explained why their robots can't handle this. OP: tiktok.thewarriorprincessx

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Local TV news picked up the story, though Waymo didn't respond to their questions. AFAICT, Florida traffic law says if you are in an intersection when the light turns red, then you should clear the intersection as soon as safe. But why/how were they stuck in the intersection when the light changed?

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Videos made ~5 days & ~5 meters apart of Waymo robots driving thru cross traffic: Carrier Dr crossing Kirkman Rd, Orlando, FL Were they too late entering the intersection or unable to track so many vehicles going so fast across so much distance? OP1: ig.codycruiser89 OP2: threads.melisaunfiltered

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Another Waymo robot failed to recognize a closed road and drove in a construction zone until physically blocked. Good they got the road plate down before the robot arrived. Nashville needs way more cones, tightly spaced. OP: tiktok.cancholaaaaa18, Nashville, TN

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A Waymo robot drove "into the oncoming lane to go around not just me but the car behind me. It then didn’t stop for the pedestrian crossing the street near the end of the video" OP: reddit.iankeichi Reinli St at N I 35 Frontage Rd, Austin, TX didn't hesitate, like/bc it's been doing this for years

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"waymo One of your cars ran a red light today at a major intersection" OP: threads.melisaunfiltered Carrier crossing Kirkman, Orlando, FL AFAIK, what it did during the video was legal, ie if in an intersection clear it. Interesting that it didn't back out of the intersection as some Waymos have.

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Apparently, a Waymo robot w passenger mistakenly stopped in an intersection bc of a fire truck parked in the median in front of: SFFD Station 5, Webster and Turk, San Francisco Stuck Waymo robots blocking SFFD station egress has been a recurring problem for years. OP: tiktok.cometravelwithg

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"the alleyway appears too narrow" to the robot Waymo telop One way to interpret this is the telop drove/operated the robot which drove/operated the car which transported the person. Without the telop that would've just been another person stuck in a car w incompetent tech. OP: x.Jikiyama, Miami

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

About as good an illustration of the Waymo Driver's inability to recognize a situation and act appropriately as we have. Any reasonable person would recognize they were going the wrong way and turn around. It also stopped w right tires in right lane, a new bug or cone phobia? OP: x.mr_jay_hatch

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This video of the apparent resolution of this incident implies the Waymo robot never "understood" it was going the wrong way, as it kept on going the wrong way once it had a path instead of turning around to go the right/legal direction.

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Despite cars streaming at/by it, its in-car screen plan remained forward as far as possible. Prob another over trusted faulty map plus atrocious/failed scene recognition. One Waymo salmon creeping to a halt may be ~funny if risky externalized "friction." Ten salmon robots makes a helluva roboclot.

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yet another (144+) Wrong Way Waymo, drove passengers into oncoming one-way post-game traffic: 4105 N Himes Ave, Tampa, FL Apparently, it didn't alert telops, ie recognize it was in trouble, & its plan remained forward into traffic. "Thought we were done for a second there" OP: tiktok.matthewr_83

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"poor guy just trying to do his job after the malcom todd concert. (the waymo wanted to go straight and the traffic was being directed to turn right)" OP: tiktok.abbigailephillips, Nashville A telop prob made the robot turn. Time Waymo robots are stuck awaiting a telop isn't regulated in Tennessee.

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Video illustrating space Waymo robots need to pass stopped/parked vehicles. They are worse at this than most ppl. The robot almost had to "know" there was enough space and odds of anything getting in the way while passing (crash) were ~0%, yet it wouldn't risk ~0%. OP: tiktok.gazi.m.fawaz, London

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

fwiw, the map for this event looks daunting for robots and somewhat ironically the festival website recommends arriving by rideshare. never take a robot to

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Waymo vs. Everybody [Denver Porchfest]" OP: x.Siegel1J Another Waymo robot got stuck perpendicular to the street, prob while trying to make a u-turn to get out of a block Waymo should've geofenced. There are many videos of Waymo robots stuck in the middle of street festivals.

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Waymo robots routinely pass cyclists & other VRU. They've even crossed double yellow lines and driven into oncoming traffic to do it. A video of it so alarmed NHTSA they conducted an investigation. Robots cannot be "patient" or do anything "angrily." Their behavior can literally change overnight.

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Another 6th gen Waymo robot drove over a curb it should have seen/detected: Monroe Garage north entrance, Valley Fair Mall, San Jose, California "Waymo broken down in front of Valley Fair Mall" OP: x.Severe-Spinach-2243

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Another empty Waymo robot failed at another Florida drawbridge, reportedly: Hillsborough Avenue Lift Bridge, Tampa "blinkers flashing" OP: x.GondolaGuru It & car behind encroached on a bike lane w faded paint ahead. Streetview has it mapped. Bad if Waymo hasn't mapped it, prob worse if they have.

"Waymo taxi was blocking traffic in a right turn only lane in Hillsborough Ave… blinkers flashing no one inside."
OP: x.GondolaGuru

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And another two Waymo robots stopped for no good reason: El Cajon at Kansas, San Diego Notice the second robot stopped by the police suv. This has been happening here for a ~month. Waymo robots have a traffic light defect for which they should be recalled until fixed. OP: tiktok.emo_daddy67

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We have too much data. They are less safe for ~99% of US driving, so far. In fact, they are ~useless for ~99% of US driving. Literally, we know if they were tested for representative US trips they would fail ~99%. AV/ADS "safety" convos depend on framing. Waymo prefers to limit it to ~1% of cases.

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