A San Francisco 'tech prankster' got 50 Waymos ordered onto the same street, exposing robotaxis' cyber/airbag problem
Fortune 49
A group of 50 people orchestrated a denial-of-service attack by ordering Waymos onto the same San Francisco dead-end street, forcing the service to suspend rides until the next morning. The incident disabled Waymo rides on a specific dead-end street starting the day of the coordinated order pileup and lasted until the following morning. The event is being used to argue that robotaxi policy should treat cybersecurity as a core requirement, especially as generative AI can speed up attacks.