Mike Johns works as an AI consultant, so he knows the technology and all that it can do to improve our lives – or make you so dizzy you can get sick.
The Los Angeles resident was trying to get back to California from Scottsdale, Arizona, last week and took a driverless Waymo taxi to the airport. However, he barely made it because the self-driving car wouldn't stop moving in circles.
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“Ok, why is this happening to me on a Monday,” Johns' viral video begins as the car connects to customer support in the background. “Why is this thing going around, it's driving me crazy!
Johns, who is speaking in the video from the backseat of the car, takes viewers on a whirlwind ride, writing, “This autonomous vehicle said fuck GPS” and went in eight circles.
“Is someone kidding me, has this machine been hacked?” he asked.
A Waymo representative got the car back online and Johns made it to the airport, though he says he “almost” missed his flight.
Johns told CNN that he chose Waymo over Lyft or Uber because he works in the tech industry.
“It's the future of where things are going, so I'm definitely part of that,” he told the media, adding that he wouldn't rule out using the service again.
Waymo told CNN in an email that it tried to contact Johns and left a voicemail.
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in October, Waymo announced that it raised $5.6 billion, led by parent company Alphabet, with “continued participation” from Andreessen Horowitz, Fidelity, Perry Creek, Silver Lake, Tiger Global and T. Rowe Price.
“Customers love Waymo,” Chase Coleman, founder of Tiger Global, said at the time. “The company has built the safest product in the autonomous vehicle ecosystem, as well as the best.”