Mike Johns, an AI expert from Los Angeles, had a terrifying experience when his Waymo driverless car began driving in circles instead of taking him to the airport. The malfunction nearly caused him to miss his flight, prompting concerns about the safety and reliability of autonomous vehicle technology.
A Los Angeles-based artificial intelligence expert experienced some alarming technological problems when his driverless Waymo ride to the airport nearly caused him to miss his flight after it began driving in circles.
“My Monday was fine till I got into one of Waymo’s ‘humanless’ cars,” Johns wrote on LinkedIn. “I get in, buckle up and the saga begins. This autonomous vehicle said to heck with GPS, the car just went around in circles, eight circles at that.” 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“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.
One of the men, wearing a hat and glasses, can be seen repeatedly making a “call me” gesture with his hand and refusing to get out of the way.
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