Last Updated on 29/08/2024 by Ankita
The world’s first self-driving taxi company is Waymo. The high-tech looking car attracts many people, but it has become a cause of trouble for many people in the American city of San Francisco. Due to this, it has become difficult for the people living nearby to sleep at night.
Due to this robot taxi, people around had to face trouble. Actually, reports that came out recently revealed that many people had trouble with this car. Actually, Waymo robot self taxi had come to a location in San Francisco. Waymo’s parent company is Alphabet.
Neighbourhood’s sleep disturbed
The people around were very excited about this. In media reports, the neighbor said that when he came to know that the world’s first robot taxi has come to his neighborhood, he wanted to see it. After this, in a few days, this taxi made the people of the neighborhood lose sleep at night. Many people started having trouble because of this taxi because whenever a car passed by it, it would give a beep sound.
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I was happy when the car arrived, but not anymore
According to reports, this sound was very loud, due to which the people living nearby had to face a lot of trouble. In the report, a local citizen has told that people felt that they were very happy because of the arrival of this car. They thought that there would be no noise when it passes, but everything was different. Whenever a car passed by it, it would give a beeping sound. In such a situation, it became difficult to sleep at night.
Videos shared on social media
After this, a local woman, disturbed by this sound, made a video and shared it on social media. After this, this matter reached the company.
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The company fixed the problem with an update
After this, Waymo’s spokesperson told that recently an update was released, with the help of which the company wanted to prevent collisions that happen at slow speeds, due to which this beep sound used to come on the vehicles passing by. The company further told that now a new update has been released, in which the sound of the horn has been reduced considerably.
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