Posted on 05/02/2026 5:57:22 AM PDT by V_TWIN
A Bay Area businessman’s first ride in a driverless Waymo turned into an airport nightmare when the robotaxi allegedly sped off with his luggage still locked in the trunk — leaving him stranded without clothes, work materials, or answers before a flight to San Diego.
Di Jin said his Monday trip from Sunnyvale to San Jose Mineta International Airport went smoothly until he arrived at the terminal and tried to retrieve his suitcase.
“I pressed the trunk open button, tried to get my luggage, but it doesn’t do anything, and it drives away immediately,” Jin told NBC.
The stunned passenger immediately contacted Waymo customer service, only to be told the autonomous vehicle was already heading back to its depot and could not return.
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Johnnycab is a little thief!
Zero sympathy.
“We hope you enjoyed the ride!”
I take a backpack with the most valuable things, like my computers and a few days of clothes and keep it with me at all times in a cab. It’s just too easy to leave it behind if I leave it with the other luggage.
Phase 1: Steal luggage
Phase 2: ?
Phase 3: Profit!
Irony can be ironic, can’t it?
🤣🤣🤣
It’s so hard to be a recovering Luddite these days...
“I’m gonna love Waymo when they take my license.”
For a while now I’ve thought how convenient self-driving cars would be when I no longer can, or want to, drive.
Because it is trained to only go from A to B...missing the training on being an actual taxi with *everything* that goes with it.
phase 2: Ebay
Great. A Runawaymo.
“waymo robot cars can only move in one direction?”
Sometimes in NO direction 👇
Waymo gets stuck in California Chick-fil-A drive-thru
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/waymo-gets-stuck-in-chick-fil-a-drive-thru/
“Phase 2: ?”
Deliver to Biden Nuclear Waste Official sam brinton......*picture omitted for obvious reasons*
My neighbour came to me in a panic a couple of months ago as he had just returned from a trip and had left his cell phone in the Uber he’d taken from the airport. He asked if he could use my phone to call it. I said sure being a good neighbour and while it took some time to get through to Uber and the driver eventually it came back to his place and all was well. Until you lose your phone you don’t realize how much of your life is wrapped up in them.
Give me a naturally-aspirated, sulfur diesel pick-up truck with crank windows and an AM radio.
It will be cheap to manufacture, last 1 million miles, won’t track me, and it will do everything I want it to do.
Open the rear bay doors Hal
'Early adapter' smug bonehead has to go to his business meetings in his underwear and no slides: finger shadows like in that old Fedex ad. LOL.
The Waymo cars all have extensive video cameras.
Let us see the video.
It may not have happened exactly as described...
It seems they are having "Waymo" problems with this rollout than they anticipated.
It always turns out this way. A “wonderful, new, amazing” technology produces unexpected results that human designers are too stupid to anticipate and can’t and won’t fix.
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