Waymo Passenger Stuck in Self-Driving Taxi Going in Circles Says He Nearly Missed Flight: WATCH
A Los Angeles-based tech entrepreneur claims he almost missed his flight after a mishap in a self-driving taxi. Mike Johns was headed to Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, and he decided to take a Waymo self-driving rideshare car — the autonomous vehicles run by Google parent company Alphabet.
Man stuck inside circling humanless Waymo car
(Gray News) - A man nearly missed his flight because he was stuck inside a self-driving Waymo taxi that kept driving in circles. The incident happened last month at the Scottsdale Airport in Arizona. Mike Johns said he was in one of Waymo’s humanless cars to get to the airport when everything went haywire.
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Man Says He Nearly Missed Flight After Waymo Car Drives in Circles
Passenger Mike Johns says he got into the driverless Waymo taxi to take him from a car rental drop-off to the airport in Scottsdale, Arizona. All at once, he says the taxi started going in circles right in the parking lot.
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Mike Johns was heading back home to LA from Scottsdale, Arizona in December, traveling to the airport in one of Waymo's autonomous vehicles.
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Mike Johns was trying to get to an Arizona airport, but his robotaxi kept driving in loops in a Scottsdale parking lot. The company says the problem has been addressed.
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A Los Angeles man said he recently missed his flight home after getting trapped on his way to the airport in a Waymo that wouldn't stop making circles in a parking lot.
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This autonomous vehicle said to heck with GPS, the car just went around in circles, eight circles at that.” Johns, who didn’t immediately respond to a message sent through his website, says he wondered if someone was pranking him.
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