--- title: San Francisco mayor pushes for tougher rules after the... description: San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has formally asked California's Department of Transportation to establish stricter rules for autonomous vehicle operators... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/san-francisco-mayor-pushes-for-tougher-rules-after-the-waymo-traffic-fiasco-1eoadvc0t twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: San Francisco mayor pushes for tougher rules after the Waymo traffic fiasco | daily.dev og:description: San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has formally asked California's Department of Transportation to establish stricter rules for autonomous vehicle operators... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/san-francisco-mayor-pushes-for-tougher-rules-after-the-waymo-traffic-fiasco-1eoadvc0t og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/1EOadvC0T.png og:image:alt: San Francisco mayor pushes for tougher rules after the Waymo traffic fiasco og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # San Francisco mayor pushes for tougher rules after the Waymo traffic fiasco **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 4 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has formally asked California's Department of Transportation to establish stricter rules for autonomous vehicle operators following two incidents where Waymo robotaxis became stranded and worsened traffic gridlock — most notably on July 4, when vehicles ran out of power near Golden Gate Bridge fireworks and blocked key streets for hours. Lurie's letter outlines four required capabilities: immediate removal of immobile vehicles from travel lanes, real-time route adaptation, real-time data sharing with local agencies, and demonstrated ability to handle large crowd events. The mayor, previously a proponent of San Francisco as a tech testbed, argues that voluntary agreements with Waymo are no longer sufficient given the company's scale of roughly 1,000 Bay Area robotaxis completing over 500,000 rides weekly. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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