Waymo driverless cars overrun Atlanta neighborhood, circling cul-de-sacs and alarming families with kids

One Atlanta vicinity has dealt with Waymo problems than they expected recently.

The Georgia city’s northwest Buckhead vicinity has been overrun successful the past mates of weeks by empty, driverless ride-share vehicles owed to an evident routing behaviour issue.

"It’s astir each small cul-de-sac successful our area, truthful I deliberation it’s a problem," a neighbour who lives connected embattled Battleview Drive told WSB-TV.

Video taken of the rogue Waymos shows them incessantly circling done a cul-de-sac and aggregate cars causing a backup connected 1 thoroughfare aft a neighbour tried to artifact the cars from entering the cul-de-sac.

WAYMO AUTONOMOUS CAR BLOCKS AMBULANCE CREW RESPONDING TO DEADLY AUSTIN MASS SHOOTING

Waymos driving astir a cul-de-sac successful an Atlanta neighborhood. (Andrea Brown Milheizler via Storyful)

"I deliberation yesterday morning, we had 50 cars that came done betwixt 6 and 7," different neighbour told the station.

A 3rd neighbour pointed retired that the occupation is much than conscionable an irritation.

 "We’re families, we person tiny animals and pets, got kids getting connected the autobus successful the greeting and it conscionable doesn’t consciousness harmless to person that traffic," they said.

Waymo presently operates successful 11 U.S. cities, including Atlanta.

The institution admitted to Fox News Digital that Waymos are staged successful areas of the metropolis wherever they are often hailed from, but said that shouldn’t travel astatine the disbursal of residents.

WAYMO UNDER FEDERAL INVESTIGATION AFTER CHILD STRUCK

A Waymo self-driving car navigates a thoroughfare astatine nighttime successful downtown Atlanta, Ga., connected Oct. 21, 2025. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

"At Waymo, we are committed to being bully neighbors," the institution told FOx News Digital. "We instrumentality assemblage feedback earnestly and person already worked with our fleet spouse to code this routing behavior. With implicit 500,000 play trips crossed the country, our work is proven to importantly trim postulation injuries and amended roadworthy safety. We worth our narration with Atlanta residents and stay focused connected providing a seamless, respectful, and harmless acquisition for riders and residents alike."

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP

And the cul-de-sac quagmire isn’t the lone contented Waymo has faced recently. This week, the institution recalled astir 4,000 of its vehicles owed to a glitch wherever it whitethorn not halt earlier driving into "standing water," and video obtained FOX 4 appeared to amusement a Waymo moving a reddish airy astatine a engaged intersection successful Dallas.

A Waymo driverless conveyance successful Los Angeles successful May. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)

Last year, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration investigated Waymo aft vehicles were allegedly seen illegally passing stopped schoolhouse buses successful Austin, Texas.

And successful January, a Waymo deed a pupil walking done a crosswalk adjacent an simple schoolhouse successful Santa Monica, California. The car was driving astatine a debased velocity and the pupil wasn't hurt.