California’s robotaxi rollout is finally getting flagged by lawmakers who are promising to bring harsher penalties to the masters of the automated machines for violated road rules.

In San Francisco, driverless cars operated by Waymo have racked up hundreds of citations, mostly for parking violations like blocking traffic during pickups , stopping in restricted zones and ignoring street-cleaning rules.

Those tickets added up to more than $65,000 in fines in 2024 alone, according to Automotive News, based on data reviewed by the San Francisco Chronicle.

Historically, California law only allowed moving violation tickets (like speeding or red lights) to be written if a human driver was present.…