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Waymo Self-Driving Taxi Reportedly Behaved Unexpectedly, Driving away from Support Crew
- Occurred
- May 6, 2021
- Published
- May 13, 2021
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A Waymo self-driving taxi car was reportedly shown on video stranded on a road in Arizona while carrying a passenger, suddenly driving away from the company's roadside assistance worker, and ended up being stuck farther down the road.
Developers
- Waymo
Deployers
- Waymo
Harmed parties
- Waymo passengers
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Waymo self-driving vehicle malfunctioned by driving away from assistance, causing a stranded passenger situation.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8