Dashcam Footage Shows Driverless Cars Clogging San Francisco

San Francisco's eastbound 54 Felton line was heading up a narrow residential street when a white SUV coming the other way stopped in the middle of the road. It was a rainy Sunday evening last month, and the bus driver leaned up to the windshield and peered through the haze at the SUV's pulsing hazard lights before slumping back and exclaiming in surprise, "What the hell? The 54, brought to a halt by an autonomous vehicle belonging to Alphabet's Waymo, isn't the only bus that's run into trouble with San Francisco's growing crowd of driverless vehicles. Bus and train surveillance videos obtained by WIRED through public records requests show a litany of incidents since September in which anxiety and confusion stirred up by driverless cars has spilled onto the streets of the US city that has become the epicenter for testing them. A San Francisco public transit bus encounters a Waymo autonomous vehicle in its path on March 5. As the incidents stack up, the companies behind the autonomous ...