Los Angeles man is trapped in circling Waymo on way to airport: ‘Is somebody playing a joke?’
LA TimesA Waymo rider said he nearly missed his flight in Scottsdale, Ariz., after the autonomous car wouldn’t stop driving in circles. A Los Angeles man said he nearly missed his flight home after getting trapped on his way to the airport in a Waymo self-driving vehicle that wouldn’t stop making circles in a parking lot. L.A. tech entrepreneur Mike Johns posted a video three weeks ago on LinkedIn of his call to a customer service representative for Waymo to report that the car kept turning in circles and that he was nervous about missing his flight. Is somebody playing a joke on me?” The customer service representative told Johns to open his Waymo app and that she would try to pull the car over but seemed to struggle with getting the vehicle to stop.