Waymo autonomous vehicles began rolling into Daly City, Broadmoor and Colma this week with little heads-up warning, according to San Mateo County Supervisor David Canepa.

“When Waymo only gives our police and fire chiefs a single day to comprehend how to deal with robot cars navigating your streets there’s a problem,” Canepa said. “Little notification, little transparency and little outreach has been Waymo’s strategy from the start. This is a sneaky company trying to monopolize a market that’s not for sale.”

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.