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Watch Just How Aggravating A Ride In A Self-Driving Taxi Can Be

Erin Marquis
·3 min read
A woman in a khaki coat sits in the back of a car. The seats are gray, as is the headliner, and she's throwing her hands up in frustration.
A woman in a khaki coat sits in the back of a car. The seats are gray, as is the headliner, and she's throwing her hands up in frustration.

What seemed like a simple trip turned into an odyssey of false starts and dodgy behavior after one San Francisco journalist attempted to take a Waymo self-driving taxi to a small local museum.

San Francisco residents are fairly fed up with their streets being used as a testing ground for the emerging technology. Robotaxi complaints are way up in the Bay Area, especially after two cars blocked traffic on a busy weekend. Journalist Lyanne Melendez at ABC 7 was initially excited to take her first trip in a self-driving taxi. The plan was to pick up her son from the nearby Randall Museum. She expressed confidence in the Waymo’s safe driving, despite the car stopping to pick her up on a completely opposite corner half a block away.

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Then the problems really began.


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