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

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/10/14/50-waymos-sent-to-dead-end-sf-street-in-pranksters-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. A few weeks back we brought your attention to Find My Parking Cops, a very short-lived app created by 23-year-old local engineer Riley Walz that drew on publicly available parking-ticket data to display the daily movements of the SFMTA's parking enforcement team. (It has since been shut down by the SFMTA.) Prior to that, we talked about LooksMapping, a fairly silly app that ranked the average hotness of restaurant patrons in SF, as well as New York and LA. Now, Wal