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Empty Waymo Robotaxi Blocks Fast-Food Drive-Thru
A wayward robotaxi from Google's sister company Waymo caused a traffic jam at the drive-thru of a fast-food restaurant in Los Angeles. The driverless car drove without a passenger into the drive-thru lane of a Chick-fil-A branch and stopped there. After half an hour of waiting, the drive-thru was closed so that Waymo could remove the vehicle, an eyewitness told the local station KTLA. His video shows the robotaxi first attempting to reverse out of the drive-thru lane and then giving up. (YouTube-Waymo at Drive Thru)
Waymo explained that the vehicle had dropped off a passenger at the location and then couldn't exit the tight parking lot surrounded by other cars. They are updating the software to ensure this doesn't happen again in the future.
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Waymo is by far the most successful developer of self-driving cars. The company, which emerged from Google's robotic car program, is active in several U.S. cities and now makes around 200,000 trips with passengers per week. The vehicles navigate confidently through complex traffic. However, some unusual situations that humans might solve through communication with other drivers can throw them off course. The robotaxis then often simply come to a stop.
Thus, a Waymo car was observed in San Francisco blocking the passage on a parking lot because it assessed it as too narrow due to a large vehicle. Worse for the driver behind: shortly after, he was blocked by another robotaxi that also remained stationary. In another case, a Waymo vehicle was filmed circling in a roundabout without leaving it. Such situations are rare but then cause annoyance among residents. (Youtube-Waymo in roundabout)
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