'My Waymo Is Being Driven By Someone Real': Woman Gets In Waymo. Then It Runs A Red Light "When the Waymo gets stuck and there’s a decision to make..." The rise of autonomous vehicles has not been without growing pains. Now a woman claims one of Google’s autonomous taxis ran a red light with her inside. TikTok user @s.geeeee, an influencer with 269,000 followers, recorded herself riding in the front passenger seat of a Waymo. "Whoever is driving my Waymo, you just ran a red light," she says. Much of her content is satirical, but she seems to suggest that there is someone remotely operating her car—Waymos are actually autonomous. "I know that my Waymo is being driven by someone real right now in Indonesia. Because I was just in three complicated situations. I take Waymos because I feel so much safer in them. But this is the first time that I’m in one that maybe my lawyer is gonna be coming out," she says. "Okay, It Didn’t Run A Red Light" @s.geeeee clarifies that the car didn’t exactly speed through a red light. Rather, the Waymo did what she calls an "L.A. left turn." "So an L.A. left turn we all know that when it’s yellow that really means go. This one as we were approaching it was yellow. So I thought they were gonna stop. But they still kept on going. And then it was in the middle of the intersection, it turned red. And then went. Which I’m like, okay. I mean I would do that. I guess," she says. Continuing, @s.geeeee describes in greater detail why the taxi's driving had her worried. "It went in between two lanes. Cause there is like a weird intersection. It just went in between like to try to tuck itself
'My Waymo Is Being Driven By Someone Real': Woman Gets In Waymo. Then It Runs A Red Light
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