A man was arrested after attempting to steal a Waymo driverless taxi in downtown Los Angeles. Waymo explained its safety measures in place to prevent unauthorized access and operation of its vehicles.
Waymo , the ride-hailing app featuring driverless robotaxis, explained what happens when someone tries to steal one of its fully autonomous, electric Jaguars following an incident in downtown Los Angeles Thursday. A man, who authorities say was possibly under the influence, was in the driver's seat of one of Waymo 's fully electric Jaguar I-PACEs when officers arrived to the scene near South Hill Street and Fifth Street around 12:30 a.m., according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
Footage shows officers pulling him out of the driver's seat, where no one is usually sitting in the self-driving cars. Waymo officially launched in Los Angeles in November, becoming available to anyone in some parts of the greater LA metro area, including Santa Monica, Hollywood and areas of South LA surrounding the University of Southern California campus. Before then, the app was only available to a limited number of riders on a waiting list. Like apps such as Uber and Lyft, rides are offered seven days a week, 24 hours a day through the app — just with no one behind the wheel. The service is currently available in LA, San Francisco, Phoenix and some surrounding areas of the Arizona city. Of Waymo's more than 5 million rides, there have been 'only been a handful of instances' in which a rider or someone else not authorized to operate the car has tried to drive off, the company said in a statement Thursday to CBS News Los Angeles. 'Waymo vehicles are designed so that unauthorized individuals cannot disengage the automated driving system and manually operate the vehicles,' Waymo said in the statement. 'When any unauthorized individual sits in the driver's seat, Waymo's Rider Support team can ask them to leave the vehicle and end the ride. If they don't comply with commands to leave the vehicle, Rider Support coordinates with our Emergency Response Team, which works with law enforcement to respond'
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