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Wait what? That’s crazy they can’t be cited for that. Is there any actual reasoning behind this rule? Would make more sense to cite over that than red curb stopping.

I expect they are also losing money on the majority of ops jobs. Depot workers, rider support, and lease agreements are still being paid, even though they are not in use. The “evacuation center lot” in LA seemed to just have many depot employees standing around with not much to do.

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The spot my pickup got auto set to was the exact street where they were burned. I’m guessing many others who ordered Waymos at the time were also automatically set here, and any other Waymo navigating DTLA took this street, due to it being one of the only parts of DTLA besides Chinatown available.

Yes! Grand, Broadway, etc. I was near The Broad, ordering a car, and my pickup got moved closer to Union State because they removed spots near me. I also made the mistake of not checking and letting the app automatically select the spot, not knowing it was removed yet.

Anyone who ordered a car in that area of DTLA was automatically selected a pickup (1 being the fire street), all due to the removal of certain areas in downtown.

Like the many first Waymo ride complaints, most people let the app auto-select a spot, and it sometimes isn’t near the actual location.

till they were left with only a few routes to take to leave downtown (one being the street that 6 got burned on).

Ops only removed a sliver of Chinatown, when the first vandalized Waymo happened the night before. Huge oversight with whoever was in charge, especially with all the constant coverage.

The multi-robot incident (fires) could have been so easily avoided. Not even a tele-ops issue, if they properly removed routing from those areas before. Not a single Waymo would’ve ended up there.

It should’ve just been one big removal of all of DTLA. Instead they did little by little—

Video here is the freeway, I’m just saying driving here on the steeets of LA, you would see constant Waymos everywhere taking Santa Monica blvd, since the burned cars/DTLA pause. There have been little to none, and it reminds me of the earlier days of LA service.

like half of the fleet was cut off

Santa Monica Blvd (which is the Main road, they all take, since no freeways) has been completely empty since the protests.

Used to see tons of Waymos constantly, West LA has felt very dead, almost like they have pulled off half of the fleet.

Even though the burning, etc happened in DTLA

It would make sense why LA wait times for all areas are so long right now, despite not serving DTLA.

Do they not have enough depots to handle these cars? At the moment, there is no known depot location in DTLA, I was under the impression that they just blocked all cars from routing there.

This is in Playa Vista at one of the Google offices. I don’t understand why they are here. I don’t believe these are cars taken out of service. Could they be brand new ones with no space at a depot?

I saw this happen in real time on the Waymo app. They were removing different spots from downtown. Till once, that street was one of the only routes a Waymo could take to leave the area. Any Waymo in that area took that path and met its fate.

Is this actually the freeway? Speeds are 35, and would employees actually be allowed to post videos?

It’s because Waymo is banned from doing so. All drive-thrus are “dead-zoned,” so even remote assistance can’t force it through. So, the only option is to do some crazy reverse. An employee put a chair behind it in the video, so that obviously didn’t help, but everyone was most likely confused.

Looks like it, it was after dreamstate in SF, picking up near the cow palace

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Did not dropoff there, but it routed through a couple times and usually had a hard time exiting, or we would miss multiple lights till it finally left.

Here’s a screenshot before the incident:

Yes I’ll have to check that. But they had multiple stops for pickup/drop-off on the ramp, which makes sense why there would be so many problems. It seems like when spots are removed they also make it not drivable in routes.

Spot removed for user selection, and it won’t route there at all. That area is completely dead zoned.

They permanently removed this spot and most around it after that incident.

So majority of these delivery robots are operated remotely? Thats interesting. Where’s the source of the firing?

They currently are testing/mapping SD, so they need a driver! :)

All the cars have initials on top, implying that they are waiting for pickup (always with their hazards), still extremely dumb that they stopped in the middle of the road for pickup. Something they do often when a street is full.

Unfortunately, Waymo kept thinking it was a valid drop-off spot, despite the gate being closed. It wasn’t able to tell it wasn’t going to open for it without remote support prompting.