The Waymo self-driving company says it has fixed a problem that caused a car to repeatedly circle a parking lot for about five minutes while its rider was trying to get to an airport.
Last month, Mike Johns posted a video on LinkedIn showing what happened after he was picked up by a Waymo self-driving car in Scottsdale, Arizona. Johns’ post said the car made eight circles. After a Waymo support agent helped get the car moving in the right direction, he was driven to the airport in time to make his flight.
“Why is this happening to me on a Monday? I’m in a Waymo car and this car is just going in circles… I got a flight to catch, why is this thing going in a circle? I’m getting dizzy,” he said in the video.