Waymo is perhaps the closest to flying cars that we have in 2025. However, how cool it is, that does not mean that it is watertight. Or in this case, rainproof. As a resident of Phoenix, AZ, it can be scary when it starts to flow, especially because parts of the valley are low -lying. Fast-forward to a few days ago, and Reddit started to come with post About Waymo, the same is drowning itself on the side of the road, and to be honest. Autonomous cars do have the freedom to drive in a lake and then close it, and thanks to my fellow phenicians we get a fully accessible view. Weather confirmation of an EV sounds unlikely, but perhaps someone can consider a precipitation function or mode at Waymo HQ, so that unfortunate riders are not stuck in their car, in the rain, in a flooded area.
The day it rained in Phoenix, AZ, and every waymo died
There was once a time when Waymo ruled the roads of Metro and Suburban Phoenix. This empire of autonomous jaguars filled with tipsy passengers and Uber/Lyft-avoided residents fell on a fateful day in September, all thanks to record rain and floods. Last Friday and weekend the wider Phoenix area experienced huge amounts of rainfall, accompanied by accidents, damage and, more importantly, drowned Waymos. For example, I have two on the way to peeing on my way home that afternoon, and when I got home, the first thing I thought of Reddit and all of you.
Waymo is always the ass of the joke, but this time it is deserved
I am not sure if I am the only one who feels empathy for non-translated objects, but I do. Waymo is theoretically generated embarrassing and it is usually the Robo-Taxi-One-liner of people. When it rained here last week in the valley of the sun (lies), these cabins all decided to find the nearest, deepest lake and make it a temporary parking space, and I am impressed by that. Waymos in The Rain doesn’t sound like something great, but it doesn’t sound as bad as it turned out to be during this freak storm.
Imagine Waymos in a tropical or subtropical market …
If there is something that I want to touch here, it is that if Waymo is unable to make a surprising rain shower work, how would it do in the long term in a climate where things like this always happen? The current Waymo markets include Phoenix, AZ; San Francisco; Los Angeles; Austin; and Atlanta. There are more cities on the future list, including Miami, which brings my left eyebrow higher than the others.
Rain happens, a lot in some places, so Waymo vehicles that cannot detect clearly flooded roadway is not a kink to strive. Whatever happens the next time a waymo comes across bad weather, let’s hope that the rider is good and ready to lean back and read a book until help arrives. Ugh. Phoenix, we love the rain, just not drowning the floods and waymo!
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