The Waymo world isn’t just about reliable robotaxis that smoothly complete around four million driverless commercial trips every month; there are also moments that seem all too human. Like this Waymo that backed up too far and found itself in a predicament.
Waymos aren’t always the cause of chaos; sometimes they’re the target of troublemakers. Take this video, for example, where a night owl—who was clearly no longer entirely sober—mistook the Waymo’s roof-mounted long-range lidar for a Devil’s Wheel (a.k.a. “Teufelsrad”) at the Munich Oktoberfest. The passengers inside the Waymo seem to be taking it in stride—or do they actually look annoyed?
Here’s a slightly more serious news item from Munich, where Bernhard Kremer spotted this Waymo on a test drive near Kirchheim, outside Munich, last Sunday.
This article was also published in German.
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