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We talked to the guy who was stuck in a Waymo robotaxi on a dizzying loop


A month ago, a video circulated around social media of a Waymo robotaxi stuck in a roundabout loop – an isolated incident with no passengers in the

Around the same time, in another Waymo robotaxi headed for the Phoenix airport, Mike Johns, founder and CEO of AI consultancy Digital Mind State, also found himself circling a parking lot, unable to stop the car or get out. Johns was stuck in the Waymo going through a loop for “under seven minutes,” but he says it “felt like forever,” particularly as he feared he would miss his flight and questioned whether the car had been hacked. Previously, she covered social media for Forbes.com, and her work has appeared in Bloomberg CityLab, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, Mother Jones, i-D (Vice) and more.

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