{"id":936719,"date":"2025-06-05T11:26:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T05:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=936719"},"modified":"2025-06-05T11:26:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T05:56:34","slug":"why-residents-of-googles-home-city-are-upset-with-its-driverless-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/05\/why-residents-of-googles-home-city-are-upset-with-its-driverless-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Why residents of Google&#8217;s home city are &#8216;upset&#8217; with its driverless cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Santa Monica, California are reportedly upset and protesting the frequent noise-pollution from Google-backed Waymo driverless cars. While the driverless electric cars with rotating sensors first seemed like a novelty, some residents are now complaining that the charging stations make constant noise. \u201cTo hear it from residents, the beeping never seems to stop, largely due to a state regulation requiring electric vehicles to audibly reverse like delivery trucks,\u201d the LA Times reported. \u201cThey beep as they back out of charging spots, and beep as they reverse to navigate around each other. They beep in the morning as they head out to pick up early passengers, and beep late at night as they return to charge up,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>California residents \u2018fed up\u2019 with Waymo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Santa Monica, California are reportedly upset and protesting the frequent noise-pollution from Google-backed Waymo driverless cars. While the driverless electric cars with rotating sensors first seemed like a novelty, some residents are now complaining that the charging stations make constant noise. \u201cTo hear it from residents, the beeping never seems to stop, largely due to a state regulation requiring electric vehicles to audibly reverse like delivery trucks,\u201d the LA Times reported. \u201cThey beep as they back out of charging spots, and beep as they reverse to navigate around each other. They beep in the morning as they head [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-936719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}