A Waymo robotaxi was caught on camera cruising through San Francisco on Tuesday morning with a parking ticket stuck right to its windshield. The driverless vehicle was spotted near Alamo Square Park around 9 a.m., ticket and all, before continuing on through the neighborhood as if nothing had happened.
The footage shows the Waymo traveling along Steiner Street and Golden Gate Avenue with the visible SFMTA citation still attached to the glass, according to KRON4. The outlet reported that it was not clear where the citation had actually been issued or how much the fine came to, and that it reached out to both Waymo and the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency for comment but had not heard back in time for publication.
It is far from the first parking ticket the autonomous vehicle company has picked up in the city. Per the station's reporting, Waymo has received at least 8,000 parking tickets in San Francisco since the start of 2025 alone, a tally attributed to The San Francisco Gazetteer.
A Fleet Racking Up Fines Across the City
Separate Gazetteer reporting digs deeper into those numbers, putting the count at 4,178 parking tickets in 2025 and another 4,131 through July 19 of this year. Fines piled up alongside the citations, with Waymo accruing $957,008 in parking fines between January 2025 and July 17, 2026, the outlet's report notes.
That marks a massive jump from 2024, when the company received just 589 parking tickets in the city, the same report states. The most common violation recorded from January 2025 through July 2026 was parking in stands for particular vehicle types, such as tour buses, which alone accounted for 2,038 tickets, and the single most frequent location for a citation was 85 North Point Street, where Waymos were ticketed 577 times, per the same account.
A Waymo spokesperson, Chris Bonelli, has said the company pays its parking tickets “like any other driver” and works with SFMTA's Fleet Program to manage citations, according to the Gazetteer's reporting. Waymo has said it operates more than 1,200 vehicles across the San Francisco Bay Area.
How San Francisco's Numbers Stack Up
San Francisco's driverless fleet isn't ticketed in a vacuum. Across the entire city, nearly 1.2 million parking tickets worth almost $119 million were issued in 2024, according to a San Francisco Standard data analysis cited by Yahoo News. By comparison, Waymo's driverless-only tally in Los Angeles that same year was far smaller, with 75 tickets and $543 in fines still outstanding, the report states.
Accounts give the same total for Waymo's 2024 San Francisco parking fines. The Gazetteer's own data puts the 2024 count at 589 tickets, while a separate account from Robotaxi.news cites a 2025 Washington Post analysis finding those same 589 tickets totaled $65,065 in fines.
As for Tuesday's sighting, the basics remain unresolved. KRON4's report does not identify the violation behind the citation, and the station said it had not received a response from either Waymo or SFMTA by the time its story was published.
