Video: Waymo standoff in San Francisco goes viral as driverless cars block street
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- Three Waymo vehicles froze on a dead-end San Francisco street; video shows standoff.
- Two cars made minor contact and a third halted after sensors detected the blockage.
- Waymo cites learning limits on complex roads; city and regulators will review incident.
Three Waymo self-driving cars froze on a dead-end residential street in San Francisco in what a witness called an apparent “standoff,” video posted on Dec. 6, 2025 shows.
“I just pulled out of the garage and I saw this going on,” a witness on the video says. “it’s like this Waymo standoff.”
Video from TikTok user @chi_rinna, provided to The Sacramento Bee via VideoElephant, shows the Waymo cars blocking the street. Two appeared to have hit each other. The third, coming from the other direction, apparently stopped after sensors picked up the scene.
Waymo officials said the vehicles made “minor contact,” according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Autonomous vehicles are still learning to navigate complicated or congested roads, Waymo staff told the newspaper.
