TV journalist documents wild ride inside Waymo self-driving car in San Francisco

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[nightshadowblade]

"I'm sorry, Lyanne, I'm afraid I can't do that."
"The doors have been locked (permanently) for your own safety."

[DethByABK]

Just glad the driver had his seatbelt on

[matthewsaleman]

I thought she was saying "Random museum" the whole time until I saw the sign at the end haha

[mike]

These things are waymo dangerous than I thought.

[Anonymous-pmjf]

I wouldn't have gotten in when the the car pulled up at the wrong location. That is a red flag right there. Anything after that is on you.

[jahjoeka]

The fact that this is actually real and on streets is actually insane!

[randallmart]

"Hey boss ill be late, my self driving uber took me hostage" 😂

[geniferteal]

"The doors will remain locked for your safety" is no one scared by this?

[oloscarlopez]

Someone needs to make a horror movie based on this concept

[Flowercandy]

Are you allowed to jump in the driver seat and take over?

[elizabethoneill]

It picked you up in the wrong spot, dangerously stopped at a green light and tried to drop you off a 5 minute uphill walk from your destination (which was on a dead end street, perhaps that was the issue?) Why they license them to drive all over the city is ridiculous. Thanks for this report.

[BoltRM]

There DEFINITELY needs to be a big button in the back seat, for customers to press to speak to operators.

[steve]

The doors are locked for the passenger safety, via the internet?

[MrWolfSnack]

"5 minute walk after drop off"
DEFEATS THE POINT OF A TAXI

Also 10 mins tapping on a phone screen a real cabbie would have you at the location in less time and open the door and unload your luggage for you right there.

[nogoogleplus]

It’s insane to trust a driverless car in traffic if it can’t even get your destination right

[buzzkilljfk]

I saw a near fatal situation happen on Fulton st at 4th ave (going East). As an elderly couple was crossing the street towards the park. They held their hands up to get Cars to stop and several of us stopped on the inside lane. And as they started to walk by our row with their hands up an Autonomous Car went flying by (outside lane by the Park) just missing them. They actually straightened up and gasped. I don’t think it broke the speed limit (30mph) but it definitely did not slow down as it was moving fast. So a heads up, if you think they see you.

[icedcoffee]

kinda amusing how the self driving car is wearing its seatbelt haha

[MarcelNL]

Jesus, I feel just as trapped as her by just watching this video! Imagine experiencing this in real life!

[monkeysplus]

Such a great example of folks (poorly) trying to solve problems that don't exist while getting rid of jobs we used to think couldn't be out-sourced. It's like to tech people just hate drivers? First destroy the cab industry, then get rid of drivers entirely while making the experience for the customer worse. It's a shame we don't have people doing this kind of pointless crap working on real problems.

[danielkarlsson]

Imagine you'd be caught in a loop with the doors locked for 3 days, without water.