Police pulled over a Waymo car for driving in the oncoming lane
by Wes Davis from The Verge - All Posts on (#6P194)
Photo: Andrej Sokolow / Picture Alliance via Getty Images On June 19th, a Phoenix police officer pulled over an autonomous Waymo vehicle that had been driving in an oncoming traffic lane. The car was apparently confused by some construction signs and reportedly ran a red light before pulling over in a parking lot to let the officer talk to one of Waymo's support representatives.
In about two-and-a-half minutes of bodycam footage published by AZCentral, the officer told Waymo the car was driving in a construction zone when it went into opposing lanes of traffic, which is real bad." He then told a curious bystander what had happened, adding, so I light it up and it takes off in the intersection." A dispatch record reportedly said the car drove through a red light and FREAKED OUT' before it...