50 Waymos Sent to Dead-End SF Street In Prankster's 'DDOS Attack'

Prankster sends 50 Waymo driverless taxis to dead-end street in San Francisco

Riley Walz, a young software engineer, announced that he was behind the stunt

50 Waymos Sent to Dead-End SF Street In Prankster's 'DDOS Attack'

Local novelty app-maker Riley Walz is on something of a tear, garnering local media attention from the Chronicle and others for the third time in almost as many weeks with a prank on Waymo vehicles.

Man Launches "World's First Waymo DDoS" by Ordering 50 Robotaxis to Dead End Street

As the old saying goes: if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. That’s a mindset that’s been fully embraced by Riley Walz, a 23-year-old “tech prankster” who runs a popular account on X-formerly-Twitter. Over the weekend, Walz went viral after posting about the “world’s first Waymo DDoS,” a reference to distributed denial-of-service attacks. DDoS is a type of malicious cyberattack in which a hacker tries to drown their target in a swarm of simultaneous…