We Followed a Waymo Self-driving Car for Miles, Here's What we Saw

[link] > One of the world’s first fully-driverless taxi firms has been blocked from expanding its business in California, where several of its vehicles have recently been involved in accidents. > Waymo, which is the driverless car division of Google parent Alphabet, currently operates in parts of San Francisco. Attempts to roll-out its robotaxi service to Sunnyvale and Los Angeles were suspended for up to 120 days following a ruling by the California Public Utilities Commission’s Consumer Protection and Enforcement Division (CPED). Then there's the federal investigation for Arizona crashes: [link] Your cars honking at each other in their own parking lot, at 4AM: [link] Your cars getting confused by a traffic cone: [link] Your cars barely able to make a lane change under the most ideal circumstances: [this video] Unable to respond to the instructions of a police officer and it taking a minute and a half for employees to manually control the car: [link] Blocking a fire truck: [link] Breaking the law and getting pulled over by police for driving in the oncoming lane: [link] One of your cars cutting off another one of your own cars in a wildly unsafe, illegal maneuver: One of your cars running a red light: [link] ...and then a few minutes later, illegally entering an intersection and stopping, then continuing to block the intersection because someone made a u-turn 30 feet in front of it while it was stopped: [link] And here's the icing on the cake: your company harassing reporters, ca