{"id":88292,"date":"2025-12-09T23:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/88292\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T23:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:18:08","slug":"woman-gives-birth-in-san-francisco-waymo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/88292\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman gives birth in San Francisco Waymo"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Franciscans are having babies in robotaxis, and nobody is talking about<\/a> it.<\/p>\n

A pregnant woman en route to a UCSF medical center gave birth inside one of the ubiquitous autonomous vehicles Monday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can confirm this is true, and the mother and baby came to our hospital,\u201d said Jess Berthold, a UC San Francisco spokesperson. The mother was not available for comment.<\/p>\n

According to Waymo, the company\u2019s remote Rider Support team detected \u201cunusual activity\u201d inside the vehicle and initiated a call to check on the passenger. The team also contacted 911, though the robotaxi arrived at the hospital ahead of emergency services, Waymo said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The vehicle was immediately removed from service for cleaning, which seems reasonable under the circumstances.<\/p>\n

In a cheerful statement, a Waymo spokesperson said the company is \u201cproud to be a trusted ride for moments big and small, serving riders from just seconds old to many years young.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wish the new family all the best,\u201d the spokesperson continued, \u201cand we look forward to safely getting them where they\u2019re going through many of life\u2019s events.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Waymos have become more prevalent, they have been involved in incidents at all points of the circle of life, from conception<\/a> to expiration<\/a>.<\/p>\n

New parents have been known to ride home from the hospital in a Waymo with their newborns<\/a>.\u00a0 The company confirmed this was not the first birth in one of its vehicles \u2014 it\u2019s apparently happened in Phoenix<\/a> too.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile this is a very rare occurrence,\u201d Waymo said, \u201csome of our newest riders just can\u2019t wait to experience their first Waymo ride.\u201d<\/p>\n

The incident raises philosophical questions that previous generations never had to consider: Does the baby get its own rider rating? Should the parents tip? And what, exactly, does a robotaxi think when a human being materializes in its back seat?<\/p>\n

San Francisco, which has become a testing ground for autonomous vehicle technology, has now witnessed yet another milestone in the driverless revolution. The city\u2019s robots can now officially handle rush-hour traffic, double-parking and, apparently, labor and delivery.<\/p>\n

No word yet on whether the newborn will receive free-ride credits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Franciscans are having babies in robotaxis, and nobody is talking about it. A pregnant woman en route…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[6919,38697,5989,101,103,102,104,106,105,9217,49246,5987],"class_list":["post-88292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-autonomous-vehicles","tag-parenting","tag-robotaxis","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-ucsf","tag-ucsf-medical-center","tag-waymo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88292","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=88292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}