Driverless Waymo taxi ‘traps’ passengers while stopped on one of Austin’s ‘scariest roads’: report
More method than they negotiated. Reports say passengers using the popular Driver Res Taxi app were locked in a completely self-driving vehicle as they parked in the middle of traffic on “one of Austin’s most frightening streets.” Waymo Ride-Hailers in Texas City were driven by a “Black Mirror” episode when a self-driving car stopped in […]
Driverless Waymo Taxi Drives in Circles, Trapping Passenger in Dizzy Spin
A Los Angeles-based artificial intelligence (AI) expert experienced some alarming technical issues when he drove his driverless Waymo to the airport and almost missed his flight as it started circling. did. Mike Johns is a “futurist” who specializes in “AI assistants that augment human tasks” and “symbiotic relationships between humans and robots.” Websitehad a bad […]
Los Angeles Man Attempts to Hijack Waymo Driverless Taxi
Los Angeles authorities arrested a man on suspicion of trying to hijack a Waymo self-driving taxi early Thursday morning, according to local reports. Video footage obtained by KTLA5 show The suspect was found in the driver's seat of a vehicle shortly before 1 a.m. near South Hill Street and 5th Street in the city's downtown […]
Catcalling bozos trap terrified woman in Waymo taxi to ask for her number: video
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! […]
Waymo Driverless Cars Create a Traffic Jam and Honk at Each Other in the Pre-Dawn Hours
Self-driving cars parked in a San Francisco parking lot caused a traffic jam and started honking at each other at 4 a.m., waking up locals. Many report that pre-dawn traffic jams caused by self-driving cars are a common occurrence. A San Francisco, California resident reportedly captured a driverless car honking its horn in the middle […]
Waymo robotaxis honk horns while parking at 4am in San Francisco
Waymo’s self-driving robot taxis are causing a nightmare for San Francisco residents, who are kept awake for an hour before dawn by the vehicles’ blaring horns. Sophia Tang, a software engineer who lives above a driverless taxi parking lot, denounced the unwanted wake-up calls from the Alphabet subsidiary. “All night long I could hear the […]
Moment cop pulls over driverless Waymo car that ‘FREAKED OUT’
Well, it certainly wasn’t drinking and driving. Police in Arizona got quite a surprise recently when they pulled over a white Jaguar SUV for a string of suspected reckless behavior near a construction site — only to discover that the vehicle was a Waymo driverless taxi, and no one was inside. Newly released body camera […]
NHTSA Launches Investigation of Google’s Waymo over Self-Driving Cars Causing Accidents
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) says Google’s Waymo self-driving cars can cause major problems on the road, including crashing into stationary objects and ignoring red lights. ars technica report Google’s Waymo is facing scrutiny from the NHTSA over potential safety risks with self-driving cars. The Office of Defect Investigations (ODI) is currently investigating […]
Waymo, Zoox self-driving cars under federal investigation following reported traffic violations, collisions
Zoox CEO Aicha Evans talks about her technology and the competition in the robotaxis space on “The Claman Countdown.” The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced that self-driving car companies Waymo and Zoox are under federal investigation for their involvement in traffic violations and crashes. NHTSA, part of the U.S. Department of Transportation, said […]
US regulator opens Waymo investigation
Waymo, the self-driving car division of Google’s parent company Alphabet, is under investigation by federal regulators over reports of nearly two dozen incidents involving Waymo cars using its self-driving system, the government announced Tuesday. . The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)’s Office of Deficiency Investigation has identified 22 crashes in which Waymo vehicles equipped […]