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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> A Waymo self-driving car in front of Google’s San Francisco headquarters, San Francisco, California, June 7, 2024. (credit: Getty Images<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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Silicon Valley’s latest disruption? Your sleep schedule. On Saturday, NBC Bay Area reported<\/a> that San Francisco’s South of Market residents are being awakened throughout the night by Waymo self-driving cars honking at each other in a parking lot. No one is inside the cars, and they appear to be automatically reacting to each other’s presence.<\/p>\n

Videos provided by residents to NBC show Waymo cars filing into the parking lot and attempting to back into spots, which seems to trigger honking from other Waymo vehicles. The automatic nature of these interactions\u2014which seem to peak around 4 am every night\u2014has left neighbors bewildered and sleep-deprived.<\/p>\n

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