{"id":88468,"date":"2025-12-10T01:51:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T01:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/88468\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T01:51:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T01:51:16","slug":"baby-born-in-a-waymo-in-san-francisco-autonomous-vehicle-company-says-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/88468\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby born in a Waymo in San Francisco, autonomous vehicle company says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765331474_645_16aa8009-snapshot-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">SAN FRANCISCO &#8211; Waymo, the somewhat divisive, autonomous vehicle and robotaxi company, has confirmed a baby was born in one of its vehicles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   Waymo baby <\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The company got back to KTVU on Tuesday and confirmed a woman was riding one of the company&#8217;s fleet of cars. While en route to one of UCSF&#8217;s medical facilities, she gave birth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The company and UCSF confirmed this happened sometime Monday night. The hospital did not have a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">A spokesperson for Waymo said the following: &#8220;Waymo&#8217;s systems and processes were effective in managing the situation. Our remote Rider Support team detected the unusual activity, initiated a call to check on the rider, and contacted 911.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Fortunately, the rider and her newborn, arrived safely at the hospital and were able to receive emergency services, Waymo&#8217;s spokesperson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">You might be wondering what happens to a Waymo once someone has given birth inside of one of its vehicles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The company said the vehicle was, &#8220;immediately removed from service for cleaning.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">This isn&#8217;t the first baby born in a Waymo. The company said that at least one other baby was born in one of their AVs in Phoenix.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/7ctoevefwta19kw3.jpg\" alt=\"Viral Waymo standoff in San Francisco\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>   Pets struck and killed <\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The Mountain View-based AV company has had a few recent controversies involving the striking of pets. A couple of months ago, a beloved <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/sf-bodega-cat-struck-killed-waymo-store-owner-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mission bodega cat was run over and killed by one of its vehicles<\/a>. This was followed by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/waymo-hits-dog-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">dog that was struck by a Waymo<\/a> in the city&#8217;s Western Addition neighborhood last month. The dog&#8217;s injuries were so bad, it had to be put down.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Congratulations <\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">As for the woman and her baby, Waymo says they are a trusted ride for riders who are just &#8220;seconds old to many years young.&#8221; They also wished the new family all the best and that they look forward to, &#8220;safely getting them where they&#8217;re going through many of life&#8217;s events.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">There is no word on the identity of the woman or how she or the baby are doing following their ordeal in the AV.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">We will update this story with more details if we track down any more information.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"insert-article-type featured-headline\" data-v-3f8abc4c=\"\">\n    Featured\n  <\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/ktvu.com\/news\/waymo-hits-dog-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" data-v-3f8abc4c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Waymo hits a dog in San Francisco<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-3f8abc4c=\"\">A Waymo autonomous vehicle has struck another animal in San Francisco, prompting more concerns over the safety of the autonomous driving technology.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/us\/ca\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/unusual\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Offbeat &amp; Unusual<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article SAN FRANCISCO &#8211; Waymo, the somewhat divisive, autonomous vehicle and robotaxi company, has confirmed a baby was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1184,100,101,103,102,104,106,105,49300,1181],"class_list":{"0":"post-88468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-san-francisco","11":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","12":"tag-san-francisco-news","13":"tag-sf","14":"tag-sf-headlines","15":"tag-sf-news","16":"tag-unusual","17":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88468","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=88468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}