Well, this is odd.
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This looks like a scene from one of those sci-fi movies they'd watch on Mystery Science Theater 3000.
According to locals on Battleview Drive in northwest Atlanta, these things have been doing this for a couple of weeks. They just show up early in the morning and ride the roundabouts like it's a warmup routine for their workday or something. Residents claim they've seen up to 50 Waymos come through in a single hour.
The residents did find a hack though.
From WSB-TV:
When one resident put a Step2Kid sign up in the street, it blocked all of the Waymos from entering the cul-de-sac.
Or at least they thought they found a hack. One of the residents tells us,
We had, at one point, eight Waymos that were stuck trying to figure out how to turn around.
The neighbors are rightly concerned. Kids, pets, and actual humans trying to live normal lives are being negatively impacted here, and you never know what could happen if this continues and a kid, say, follows a rolling ball into the street and meets the grill of one of the Waymos. But sure, let's turn residential streets into unregulated robot warm-up lots because automated taxis are the future.
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Nah, let's not.
But Waymo, I kinda dig what you're doing here ... 'cause without you, who would we make fun of?
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