A nightly Waymo robotaxi parking lot honkfest is waking San Francisco neighbors

tal , 4 hours ago

Could barely sleep, literally heard it in my dreams.

I do think that there’s an argument that maybe apartment buildings should be required to list some kind of sound isolation metrics.

tyler , 2 hours ago

I wonder if Colorado has required this because I know when I was looking at apartments about 11 years ago they told us the decibel reduction of the windows and doors in the apartments we looked at that were near highways. And then a few years later in 2016 when we were house shopping they told us the sound reduction for the houses that were near major roads. I’ll have to look it up and see if it’s a law or not.

MagicShel , 1 hour ago

I don’t think I’d want to live anywhere it is necessary to worry about sounds reduction levels. Wow.

Drusas , 42 minutes ago

It's something you have to worry about in basically all apartments (in the US--despite thin walls and no insulation, I never had loud and inconsiderate neighbors when I lived in Japan). You might get lucky and get a place with good soundproofing, but the odds are slim.

downpunxx , 2 hours ago

when they group in a pack they can't help but howl, it's in their dna

along_the_road OP , 4 hours ago

Video from the story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CN8k831Qp0

t3rmit3 , 1 hour ago

My super white family is a honkfest. This is just whining because “robotaxis bad”. The sirens here in SF are much worse than this.

FaceDeer , 1 hour ago

Looking forward to the "Waymo robotaxis become silent killers stalking the night" headlines once the fix is implemented.

Drusas , 39 minutes ago

But when the lot starts to fill up (which “usually happens at 4AM or so,” according to Tung) what looks like a maddening ballet of autonomous parking — and honking — begins. The noise goes for as much as an hour at a time before it settles down, she said.

Did you read the article? Because that sounds really egregious.