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Randol White lives adjacent to a parking lot full of driverless Waymo cars in San Francisco, KGO-TV reported on Aug. 13. And he’s a big fan of the autonomous vehicles. But over the last few weeks, White has been assaulted by the sounds of car horns.
“I was like, where is that coming from? And I looked down, and I was like, I think it’s coming from the Waymo cars,” he said.
Sure enough, the smart cars have become confused and all started honking at each other, both during the day and at night.
“I could not be more cranky today,” said neighbor Russell Pofsky. “It affects the way you feel.”
Waymo said it has identified the glitch and is working on a fix.
Richard E. Brown of Kershaw County, S.C., filed a lawsuit on Aug. 1 against Buc-ee’s, the convenience store chain, WBTW-TV reported. Brown was walking on a sidewalk at a store in Florence County, S.C., in 2022 when he tripped over a rope that was holding down the large inflatable beaver mascot, which caused him several injuries, including to his right shoulder. The lawsuit claims that Buc-ee’s was “aware of the dangerous condition of the rope that was holding the inflatable beaver in place.” Brown is suing for negligence and seeking unspecified financial damages. Buc-ee’s has not responded.
In Pittsburgh on Aug. 12, the Allegheny River was the site of a massive dredging and cleanup conducted by Three Rivers Waterkeeper, an environmental group. TribLIVE reported that in just four hours, the operation pulled about 50,000 pounds of vehicle parts from the river, along with an intact Volkswagen Beetle, bicycles, skateboards and a mattress.
“If you were to dive down there right now, you’d see a solid tangle of vehicles,” said Capt. Evan Clark.
Many of the cars were thought to be from a long-closed downtown parking lot.
“To see this cleanup work, it shows that people care about the rivers, and they’re getting better,” Clark said.
Even after Cody Mortensen, 28, of Lucerne Valley, Calif., was told that he would “probably die,” he insisted on biking across Regent’s Slide, a massive landslide near Big Sur. The Mercury News reported that on Aug. 9, Mortensen talked with a construction worker who said the road was not passable, but the biker “said he was going to try anyways.” Sure enough, Mortensen fell more than 100 feet toward the ocean, abandoned his bicycle and climbed down toward the beach, where he was rescued by Bettencourt and Big Sur Fire. He had hit his head and seemed confused, witnesses said, and his arm was cut. Mortensen faces charges of wanton disregard to obey a person directing traffic and failing to obey traffic signs.
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