{"id":42530,"date":"2025-10-15T19:02:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T23:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=42530"},"modified":"2025-10-15T19:02:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T23:02:50","slug":"tech-pranksters-create-self-driving-traffic-jam-in-san-francisco-with-50-waymos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=42530","title":{"rendered":"Tech Pranksters Create Self-Driving Traffic Jam in San Francisco with 50 Waymos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.roadandtrack.com\/news\/a69032975\/san-francisco-tech-pranksters-waymo-self-driving-car-traffic-jam\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright hoverZoomLink\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/waymo-traffic-jam-68eea8f438344.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">This isn&#8217;t the first autonomous traffic jam to occur in the Bay Area, but it may be the most deliberate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.roadandtrack.com\/news\/a69032975\/san-francisco-tech-pranksters-waymo-self-driving-car-traffic-jam\/\">Tech Pranksters Create Self-Driving Traffic Jam in San Francisco with 50 Waymos<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>a fun youtube search for &#8220;waymo&#8221; results in some interesting videos<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"When it\u2019s 4am but the waymos are getting aggressive in the parking lot\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6CN8k831Qp0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t the first autonomous traffic jam to occur in the Bay&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[70,75,2166],"class_list":["post-42530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-hacking","tag-self-driving-car","tag-waymo","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42530"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42534,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42530\/revisions\/42534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}