Waymo must stop charging its driverless taxis overnight in Santa Monica after a judge found the hum disturbed nearby residents.

The ruling came after dozens of complaints about the sound of the fleet’s high‑capacity chargers.[^1][^2][^3][^4][^5][^6] A Los Angeles County judge ordered the company to suspend any charging that runs through the ni…

Waymo’s Santa Monica deployment relies on a network of charging stations that keep its electric robotaxis on the road during peak hours. The injunction forces the firm to pull its chargers from the nightly schedule an…

The company has not disclosed how many chargers are affected, but the loss of overnight power means the fleet will have to run on daytime charging windows or on‑the‑go top‑up. That reduction in availability could shav…