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Waymo: Redlining Communities of Color [1]
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Date: 2025-06-15
I live in San Francisco and generally find the Waymos to be better drivers than idiot people. But I've noticed less of them around where I live, a minority majority neighborhood that is mostly Asian American in the North Central part of the City.
So I logged into the app and discovered they're basically red lining all majority minority neighborhoods.
Want to get picked up at Bush and Hyde? You'll have to walk to the West Side of Van Ness (a majority Caucasian neighborhood). Want to get picked up at Sacramento and Larkin? You'll have to walk to the West Side of Van Ness, (a majority Caucasian neighborhood). Want to get picked up at Union and Taylor, it won't pick you up.
Want to get dropped off at Bush and Gough (Japantown), you'll have walk up to California Street (Pacific Heights, majority Caucasian).
Want to get picked up Divisadero and Union (one of the richest and whitest neighborhoods in the City), it'll go to your door.
The protests at the moment? Non-existent. When they are active, they're literally miles from any of these places in the Mission and the Tenderloin. And the protests yesterday were all very peaceful.
So what this is is Artificial Intelligence Redlining any community that is either 1. Majority minority or 2. Has a certain percentage of immigrants in the neighborhood.
It's beyond disturbing. The City and County of San Francisco should pull Waymos permits to operate until they commit to not Redlining based on immigration or racial demographics of an area.
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