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Anyone driving this thing?
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Getting to the airport on time for a flight home from Scottsdale, Ariz., was stressful enough for Los Angeles resident Mike Johns. But then his driverless Waymo taxi glitched. Rather than driving Johns to the airport, the autonomous Waymo car started going in circles. “It’s circling around a parking lot. I’ve got my seatbelt on, I can’t get out of the car,” Johns told Waymo customer service in a phone call he documented for social media. “Has this been hacked? What’s going on?” After a few minutes Waymo officials were able to get the car pointed in the right direction, allowing Johns to overcome his dizziness and narrowly make his flight home.

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