Friday nights are not always the most exciting, especially when you are a police officer of the Californian city of San Bruno, in the San Francisco Bay region. The nights will generally take into account any driver who can spend too fast or make sure that drivers in a state of drunkenness are arrested. This is what two police officers did on the night of September 26.
Seeing a car to make an illegal turn, a fire, and return in the other direction, they undertook all the siren howling. The rare car did not try to flee and parked quickly at the bottom. The representative of the law advanced to notice that the interior before, and even the entire car was empty. He had just stopped a Waymo Robotaxi, a Google subsidiary. “Without driver, without hands, without track” (“Without driver, without hands, without control”), writes the San Bruno Police Department on his Instagram account.
A situation outside the nails
The San Bruno police ticket, as probably a lot of police force worldwide, does not offer to verbalize a robot driver. Therefore, the car was able to go to the road, without a fine being issued.
However, the Police Department contacted Waymo to tell him about this matter and the small mistake that made the robotaxi an illegal maneuver, hoping that a solution prevents this from happening again. The Instagram publication specifies that it was the first time for the two patrolmen.
On the other hand, this is not the first for a car Waymo. On the other hand, a Robotaxi of the Google subsidiary fleet was arrested in July 2024 for driving on the other hand. A model of the cruise company was also asked to align in the hall because he was shooting all the extinguished turns at night … and without the driver behind the steering wheel.
Towards an increasingly human behavior?
Paradoxically, while players in the Robotaxis sector have always highlighted the fact that their autonomous vehicles were safer than humans led by Human, Waymo has recently been so that their robotaxis drives more naturally, humanly, in other words.
More are claimed, for example, in a cross or they start slowly when a pedestrian crosses red while the fire for cars has become green … It is according to Waymo a way to better melt the robotaxis in the flow of “human” cars, without reducing the safety and general quality of the service.
It is difficult to predict whether Waymo cars will now respect the road code, one thing is safe, except the revolution, they will never lead to a state of poisoning.
Source: BFM TV
