{"id":267159,"date":"2026-04-14T10:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T10:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/267159\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T10:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T10:44:07","slug":"how-waymo-and-waze-are-pitching-in-to-help-solve-l-a-s-pothole-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/267159\/","title":{"rendered":"How Waymo and Waze are pitching in to help solve L.A.’s pothole problem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Waze and Waymo are teaming up to help combat Los Angeles\u2019 growing pothole problem. <\/p>\n

The companies announced a program that will use Waymo\u2019s self-driving cars to better detect potholes in the city. The data will be available to city officials through Waze\u2019s traffic data-sharing platform<\/a>, according to a news release last week.<\/a> <\/p>\n

The number of potholes in L.A. jumped early this year after an intense rainy season soaked the city.<\/a> Residents reported over 6,700 potholes in January and nearly 5,000 reports were submitted in February and again in March, according to data from the city\u2019s 311 tip line analyzed<\/a> by the nonprofit newsroom Crosstown L.A.<\/a> <\/p>\n

The partnership is the most recent effort in Waymo\u2019s long-standing commitment to making roads safer, Arielle Fleisher, the company\u2019s policy development and research manager, said in the release. <\/p>\n

The Waze navigation app will also use the data to warn users as they approach a pothole, the company said. <\/p>\n

Drivers will then be able to verify the Waymo-identified pothole in real time. <\/p>\n

L.A. has been slow<\/a> to repair pavement issues on its 23,000 miles of streets in recent years. <\/p>\n

The city repaired 310 miles of road in fiscal year 2025, which ended in June \u2014 a nosedive from the 850 miles it paved a decade before in 2015, according to Crosstown. Only 216 miles of street lanes were paved in fiscal year 2024. <\/p>\n

The Bureau of Street Services, the department in charge of paving the city\u2019s streets, is in communication with Waymo regarding the pilot program, said Dan Halden, a spokesperson for the city department.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bureau proactively manages the city\u2019s streets, ensuring roadways are treated not only for repair but also to strengthen the street network and prevent future potholes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Many cities, including L.A., rely on residents to report potholes through the nonemergency 311 service. The process provides an incomplete picture of road health, according to Waymo and Waze. <\/p>\n

The pilot program intends to fill in reporting gaps and was developed based on feedback from city officials. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to build on the safety benefits of our service by partnering with organizations and city officials to help improve the infrastructure we all depend on,\u201d Fleisher said<\/p>\n

The pilot program is running in five cities, including San Francisco, and has already identified 500 potholes. The program is also underway in the metropolitan areas of Phoenix; Austin, Texas; and Atlanta.<\/p>\n

The companies plan to expand into cities with colder weather, which can worsen the pothole problem. <\/p>\n

\u201cWorking together helps our community and makes our roads better for everyone,\u201d Andrew Stober, the strategic partner manager at Waze, said in the release. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waze and Waymo are teaming up to help combat Los Angeles\u2019 growing pothole problem. The companies announced a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1409,20386,1804,3291,2303,48,52,51,47,50,49,2663,60318,116672,4576,14310,4747,1291,5987,47167,72],"class_list":{"0":"post-267159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-city","9":"tag-city-official","10":"tag-company","11":"tag-datum","12":"tag-l-a","13":"tag-la","14":"tag-la-headlines","15":"tag-la-news","16":"tag-los-angeles","17":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","18":"tag-los-angeles-news","19":"tag-mile","20":"tag-pothole","21":"tag-pothole-problem","22":"tag-program","23":"tag-road","24":"tag-service","25":"tag-street","26":"tag-waymo","27":"tag-waze","28":"tag-year"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}