{"id":416417,"date":"2026-07-29T11:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T11:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/416417\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T11:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T11:15:07","slug":"san-francisco-is-taking-its-waymo-worries-to-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/416417\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco is taking its Waymo worries to Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 The City by the Bay is taking its robotaxi worries to Washington after a series of Waymo meltdowns disrupted traffic and prompted some in the tech-industry town to start to sour on the self-driving cars they once embraced.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Daniel Lurie on Tuesday publicly backed a proposal in Congress to reel in any unruly, autonomous vehicles \u2014 not just Waymos \u2014 especially during their run-ins with first responders, <a href=\"https:\/\/subscriber.politicopro.com\/newsletter-archive\/technology-california-decoded\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">POLITICO\u2019s California Decoded newsletter<\/a> was first to report.<\/p>\n<p>The bill is authored by Rep. Kevin Mullin (D-Calif.) \u2014 who represents areas south of San Francisco headed toward Silicon Valley \u2014 and also has the support of San Francisco transit and public safety officials.<\/p>\n<p>The move is a notable step for Lurie, who came into office trumpeting tech company successes in the city, like Waymo\u2019s spread, as a way to boost San Francisco\u2019s economy and image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 The City by the Bay is taking its robotaxi worries to Washington after a series&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-416417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416417","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=416417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}