# Whamo the Waymo - The Atlanta Waymo Gridlock

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Podcast: [True Crimecast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-crimecast-835508)
Published: 2026-05-22T07:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

On the morning of May 14, 2026, residents of a quiet northwest Atlanta neighborhood woke up to a bizarre sight: an army of empty, driverless Waymo vehicles invading their cul-de-sacs. Between 6:00 and 7:00 a.m. alone, nearly 50 autonomous cars flooded Battleview Drive, looping endlessly and turning a peaceful suburban morning into a technological traffic jam. We discuss how these repositioning vehicles became obsessed with a single residential area, the safety concerns raised by local parents, and what happens when the algorithms we trust to optimize our streets end up gridlocking them instead.

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