{"id":727107,"date":"2026-04-14T10:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T10:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/727107\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T10:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T10:39:13","slug":"how-waymo-and-waze-are-pitching-in-to-help-solve-l-a-s-pothole-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/727107\/","title":{"rendered":"How Waymo and Waze are pitching in to help solve L.A.’s pothole problem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Waze and Waymo are teaming up to help combat Los Angeles\u2019 growing pothole problem. <\/p>\n

The companies announced a program that will use Waymo\u2019s self-driving cars to better detect potholes in the city. The data will be available to city officials through Waze\u2019s traffic data-sharing platform<\/a>, according to a news release last week.<\/a> <\/p>\n

The number of potholes in L.A. jumped early this year after an intense rainy season soaked the city.<\/a> Residents reported over 6,700 potholes in January and nearly 5,000 reports were submitted in February and again in March, according to data from the city\u2019s 311 tip line analyzed<\/a> by the nonprofit newsroom Crosstown L.A.<\/a> <\/p>\n

The partnership is the most recent effort in Waymo\u2019s long-standing commitment to making roads safer, Arielle Fleisher, the company\u2019s policy development and research manager, said in the release. <\/p>\n

The Waze navigation app will also use the data to warn users as they approach a pothole, the company said. <\/p>\n

Drivers will then be able to verify the Waymo-identified pothole in real time. <\/p>\n

L.A. has been slow<\/a> to repair pavement issues on its 23,000 miles of streets in recent years. <\/p>\n

The city repaired 310 miles of road in fiscal year 2025, which ended in June \u2014 a nosedive from the 850 miles it paved a decade before in 2015, according to Crosstown. Only 216 miles of street lanes were paved in fiscal year 2024. <\/p>\n

The Bureau of Street Services, the department in charge of paving the city\u2019s streets, is in communication with Waymo regarding the pilot program, said Dan Halden, a spokesperson for the city department.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bureau proactively manages the city\u2019s streets, ensuring roadways are treated not only for repair but also to strengthen the street network and prevent future potholes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Many cities, including L.A., rely on residents to report potholes through the nonemergency 311 service. The process provides an incomplete picture of road health, according to Waymo and Waze. <\/p>\n

The pilot program intends to fill in reporting gaps and was developed based on feedback from city officials. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to build on the safety benefits of our service by partnering with organizations and city officials to help improve the infrastructure we all depend on,\u201d Fleisher said<\/p>\n

The pilot program is running in five cities, including San Francisco, and has already identified 500 potholes. The program is also underway in the metropolitan areas of Phoenix; Austin, Texas; and Atlanta.<\/p>\n

The companies plan to expand into cities with colder weather, which can worsen the pothole problem. <\/p>\n

\u201cWorking together helps our community and makes our roads better for everyone,\u201d Andrew Stober, the strategic partner manager at Waze, said in the release. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waze and Waymo are teaming up to help combat Los Angeles\u2019 growing pothole problem. The companies announced a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":727108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2451,67887,638,12920,6276,2961,224,5337,28207,217717,301133,4369,8150,6228,625,17228,42392,1628],"class_list":["post-727107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-city","tag-city-official","tag-company","tag-datum","tag-l-a","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-mile","tag-pothole","tag-pothole-problem","tag-program","tag-road","tag-service","tag-street","tag-waymo","tag-waze","tag-year"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116402635813976238","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}