“I noticed it while I was sleeping,” San Francisco resident Jennifer King told KPIX. “I awoke to a strange hum and I thought there was a spacecraft outside my bedroom window.”
That buzz she's talking about is coming from an influx of lost WayMo vehicles making their way to the dead-end street she lives on in Richmond District.
King says self-driving cars come at all times of the day. The cars end up right at the end of 15th Avenue where they have to make some kind of multi-point turn and head back the way they came in.
When one car makes it out, another confused self-driving car is right behind it to do the same exact thing.
“There are some days where it can be up to 50,” King said. “It’s literally every five minutes. And we’re all working from home, so this is what we hear.”
Just this week, the WayMo vehicles actually showed up at the same time, packing the residential street with confused self-driving vehicles.
The frequent visits from the cars are stirring up conversation among the neighbors.
“We have talked to the drivers, who don’t have much to say other than the car is programmed and they’re just doing their job,” said King.
For now, residents on this San Francisco street can only speculate as to what's causing the company's cars to keep showing up on their street.