Fifty driverless cars converging on a single dead-end street sounds like a software glitch. In reality, it was a coordinated prank.
Over the summer, Riley Walz — a 23-year-old software engineer and self-described “tech prankster” — enlisted dozens of participants to order Waymo rides at the same moment on San Francisco’s longest dead-end street.
“The plan? At dusk, 50 people went to San Francisco’s longest dead-end street and all ordered a Waymo at the same time,” Walz revealed Sunday on X. “The world’s first: WAYMO DDOS.”…