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To: FJB who wrote (61662)1/6/2025 1:32:14 AM
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WATCH: Driverless Waymo Taxi Drives in Circles, Trapping Passenger in Dizzy Spin

“My Monday was fine till I got into one of Waymo’s ‘humanless’ cars,” Johns wrote on LinkedIn. “I get in, buckle up (safety first) and the saga begins. This autonomous vehicle said to heck with GPS, the car just went around in circles, eight circles at that.”

While the car was spinning in circles, Johns was desperately trying to get help from a customer service representative over the phone.

“It’s circling around a parking lot. I’ve got my seatbelt on, I can’t get out of the car. Has this been hacked? What’s going on?” Johns said in the video, complaining that he felt “dizzy.”

After several uncomfortable minutes of the tech entrepreneur being trapped in the backseat, the Waymo representative was finally able to get the car to pull over, “allowing him to get to the airport just in time to catch his flight back to LA,” CBS News reported.

However, Johns was not even sure if he was talking to a real human or an AI bot.

“Where’s the empathy? Where’s the human connection to this?” Johns told CBS. “It’s just, again, a case of today’s digital world. A half-baked product and nobody meeting the customer, the consumers, in the middle.”

The driverless car company currently operates in the Phoenix-Scottsdale area of Arizona, as well as San Francisco and Los Angeles, California. Waymo is owned by Alphabet — the same parent company as Google.

The technology has received mixed reviews, with some passengers — especially women — complaining of facing harassment and other safety concerns while trying to ride to their destinations, Breitbart News reported.

In one shocking incident in San Francisco, a female Waymo passenger named Amina recorded two men blocking her vehicle’s path to demand her cell phone number, while the car was unable to maneuver around them:


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