Sunday, March 3, 2024

Here's what happened when someone tried to unlawfully use a Waymo self-driving car in Los Angeles

LAT (testing of the cars has started in LA):

The man entered and tried to operate a Waymo vehicle that had stopped to let out a passenger at the corner of 1st and Main at 10:30 p.m., LAPD Det. Meghan Aguilar said. After the man, whom a Waymo spokesman described as an “unauthorized pedestrian,” entered the vehicle, the company’s Rider Support team instructed him to exit the car.

When he did not, the company contacted the police

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The car was stationary during the entire incident because an unauthorized person was identified by the company to be in the vehicle