Waymo Than They Bargained For

Johnnycab

Two 15-year-old boys were detained in San Mateo Monday afternoon after the Waymo robotaxi they were riding in reported them to police – for drinking alcohol and firing a gel-bead blaster out of the moving car – then pulled itself over so officers could collect them. [More]

“15” and “weapons”?

And speaking of stops passengers never asked for

[Via bondmen]

And Leave the Driving to Us!

San Francisco power outage puts 130,000 in the dark, as self-driving car service stops vehicles in the street [More]

I don’t suppose you have control over the neighborhood where that could happen, do you?

Good thing Waymo says in no uncertain terms, “Do not bring weapons into the car.” Wouldn’t want any passersby taking advantage of unarmed customer!

I mean, it’s not like seeing one of your cars once word gets out will give predators added incentive…