[HN Gopher] The world's first: WAYMO DDOS
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       The world's first: WAYMO DDOS
        
       Author : sekai
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2025-10-12 20:03 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com)
        
       | sekai wrote:
       | "The plan? At dusk, 50 people went to San Francisco's longest
       | dead-end street and all ordered a Waymo at the same time.
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       | The world's first: WAYMO DDOS
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       | We didn't actually get in the cars. They left after about 10 min
       | and charged a $5 no show fee. Waymo handled this well. I assume
       | this isn't much different than if a big concert had just ended.
       | Eventually, they disabled all rides within a 2 block vicinity
       | until the morning "
        
       | allears wrote:
       | Would be very funny unless you lived or needed to travel in that
       | area
        
         | dc396 wrote:
         | I guess I don't see the humor.
        
       | quuxplusone wrote:
       | I know it's a joke, but: If you're all in the same place, it's
       | not a "Distributed" Denial of Service. And if you order cars,
       | they arrive, and you pay for what you ordered, it's not actually
       | a "Denial of Service" either -- cars for pay is literally the
       | service Waymo is offering! It's more like (as the tweeter points
       | out) "if a big concert had just ended."
       | 
       | Apparently the event pictured happened in July, even though the
       | tweet is from October.
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       | https://xcancel.com/rtwlz/status/1977443969115029847
        
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