'is This Car Hacked?': Viral Video Shows A Man Trapped In A Circling Waymo Driverless Taxi

Mike Johns useful arsenic an AI consultant, truthful he knows exertion and everything it tin do to amended our lives — aliases make you truthful dizzy you mightiness get sick.

The Los Angeles resident was trying to get backmost to California from Scottsdale, Arizona, past week and took a Waymo driverless taxi to nan airport. However, he hardly made it because nan self-driving car wouldn't extremity driving successful circles.

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"Ok, why is this happening to maine connected a Monday," Johns's viral video originates arsenic nan car connects pinch customer support successful nan background. "Why is this constituent going successful circles, I'm getting dizzy!"

Johns, who is talking successful nan video from nan backseat of nan car, takes viewers connected a head-spinning ride, writing, "This autonomous conveyance said to heck pinch GPS" and went successful 8 circles.

"Is personification pulling a prank, is this car hacked?" he asked.

A Waymo emblematic sewage nan car backmost online and Johns made it to nan airport, though he says he "nearly" missed his flight.

Johns told CNN that he chose Waymo complete Lyft aliases Uber because he useful successful nan exertion industry.

"It's nan early of wherever things are going, truthful I'm decidedly a information of that," he told nan outlet, adding that he wouldn't norm retired utilizing nan activity again.

Waymo told CNN successful an email that it attempted to relationship Johns and adjacent a voicemail.

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In October, Waymo announced that it raised $5.6 billion, led by genitor institution Alphabet, pinch "continued participation" from Andreessen Horowitz, Fidelity, Perry Creek, Silver Lake, Tiger Global, and T. Rowe Price.

"Customers emotion Waymo, said Chase Coleman, laminitis of Tiger Global, astatine nan time. "The institution has built nan safest merchandise successful nan autonomous conveyance ecosystem arsenic bully arsenic nan best."