A video of two thugs blocking a driverless taxi in San Francisco and demanding the phone numbers of terrified passengers has gone viral.
The victim, a technical worker named Amina, posted: Video to X It shows two men blocking the path of her Waymo car, refusing to step aside and demanding her number.
“Stop! No! Go! Go!” Amina yelled as the two not-so-skilled men grinned and taunted her.
“My car stalled on the road and I was stranded,” Amina wrote in X. “The first guy was standing in front of the car about a minute before I started filming. Then he came back again and the second guy came with him.”
After Amina stopped filming to call Waymo's in-vehicle support service, a “random guy walking around with a torch” added to the disturbing display, she wrote. “I was worried that more guys would flock to us, but luckily that didn’t happen.”
Waymo, which operates self-driving taxis in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Phoenix, apologized to Amina and the Alphabet Inc. company on X. told the San Francisco Standard Such incidents are “a significant number of the 100,000 trips we offer each week.”
However, this is not the only Waymo taxi attack.
In February, a man who appeared to be homeless attacked a couple's Waymo car and tried to block its sensors, which would make the car immobilized and do his bidding. ABC San Francisco reported.
“If we were walking outside, we could have walked away. We ran away. If we were driving, we could definitely close the door. In this case, we literally had no control.” one of the victims told ABC.
Waymo then sent an email to the couple advising passengers to remain in their vehicles “when pedestrians attack the vehicle.”
Amina accepted Waymo's apology.
“The Waymo team was great and called me with in-car support. They called me to follow up and were very good at resolving this issue,” she said. I wrote it. “I may still take him, but I will be careful not to carry him alone.”
