And so it begins.
Posted on 01/01/2026 12:13:08 PM PST by DFG
An autonomous Waymo taxi took a wrong turn and drive straight into an active fire scene in Los Angeles, California.
A driverless Waymo vehicle turned onto Melrose Avenue in Hollywood and past road flares, finding itself in the midst of an active fire scene earlier this week, according to a report by ABC 7.
The robotaxi reportedly drove into an area that the Los Angeles Fire Department had blocked off, and appeared to have one passenger in the backseat.
Witnesses told the outlet that the Waymo car stayed inside the closed area of the fire scene for about ten minutes before making a U-turn and driving away.
This is not the first time a driverless Waymo car has violated traffic orders. In fact, the autonomous vehicles are becoming notorious for erratic driving in cities where they are allowed to operate.
A few months ago, a Waymo car was caught on camera illegally passing a school bus in Atlanta, Georgia, with video footage taken on a woman’s cellphone showing the vehicle passing a school that had its stop sign out and lights flashing as children were exiting the bus.
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So the question is why is Waymo still operating?
These are out there on public streets, but they need Waymo testing.
Did they spend Waymo time impounding the Waymo?
There was a fire at a fully automated Amazon warehouse some years ago and the robots kept running and interfering with firefighters trying to put it out. They’ve since programmed the robots to return to their homebase if a fire alarm goes off.
“So the question is why is Waymo still operating?”
Because their safety record is much better than cars driven by humans.
I ask again to those who are more knowledgeable
than I (large group):
During that internet and power outage last week, did the stopped Waymo vehicles lock the drivers and passengers inside or could they override to get out?
Even Teslas have no door handles at least outside.
Perhaps WayMo could get a contract to take all of the “children” to the Minnesota Day Care Centers.
I can just see it now. The democRATS form another nonprofit/NGO. This time, the NGO charter is transportation “for the children.” They take more State and Federal taxpayer $$$, pay the NGO CEO A LOT, and funnel $$$ to themselves and others. The CEO makes a generous “contribution” back to the democRATS.
The WayMo taxis could travel back and forth between the fictitious children’s homes and the fictitious care centers.
The WayMo taxis would be empty, and no children would be in danger.
If any young entrepreneur journalist were to photograph the empty WayMo Taxis, the democRATS could explain that there is an extended safety testing program of the entire concept. Once the democRATS have ensured that the concept is safe (and their pockets are bulging with cash) children will be allowed in the WayMo taxis.
This would never happen with Johnny Cab. lol
They should have thought of that.
The taxis are run by a program. The program is incapable of understanding à complex scene, but the human mind is made for that.
Just think about that - not one clown in the bunch with enough brains to foresee that scenario.
I'm convinced the downward spiral with programmers is worsened by the number of skilled programmers who refuse to work with frauds and incompetent clowns.
I've been hearing a lot of "they didn't see that coming" followed by "how could they not?"
AI is not a “program.”
Check it out.
I’ve worked at places where the BAs write the requirements. It is their job to ONLY write requirements for the HAPPY PATH.
It is the job of the QA to discover and test the unhappy path.
The UNHAPPY PATH is only coded if the manager orders the Developers to code it...if there is enough time and budget before release. If there is not enough time or money then it is set aside for low priority in some future release.
And so it begins.
“The program is incapable of understanding à complex scene, but the human mind is made for that.”
EXACTLY. The AI or whatever drives the thing has not been programmed for all scenarios or a complex situation where there is more than one situation to deal with.
I think a person’s life expectancy is much better off with a seasoned human driver.
Maybe Waymo was programmed to slow down and gawk at accidents.
The fact that the company can’t be held accountable is a real travesty. They should have one drivers license. All violation points should go on it. And if it exceeds the points level then the license should be pulled.
Follow the money.
"AI" is neither artificial, nor intelligent. It's programming that is modified by dollar-a-day "programmers" in India.
Related: "AI Chatbot Turns Out to Be 700 Engineers in India"
https://tech.co/news/ai-startup-chatbot-revealed-as-human-engineers
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