San Francisco residents gripe that Waymo’s once-polite self-driving cars are suddenly behaving like “an aggressive, New York taxi driver,” weaving through tunnels in zigzags, rolling through stops and squeezing past other cars, according to a report.

In September, police in nearby San Bruno, Calif. pulled over a Waymo after officers watched it make an illegal U-turn — a sign of how sharply the company says it has reprogrammed the cars to be more “confidently assertive.”

When cops approached the offending self-driving car, a Waymo operator’s voice began speaking to them, according to the Wall Street Journal.

“They said they would look into it,” Police Sgt. Scott Smithmatungol told the Journal. “They were really, really apologetic.”

Chris Ludwick, the senior director of product manageme

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