Waymo's autonomous taxi was thwarted by traffic cones, and then made everything worse

In perhaps the most relatable situation a self-driving car has ever created, Waymo's autonomous taxi encountered a problem, tried to fix it without help, and mostly failed. 

When Joel Johnson's Waymo One taxi came across traffic cones blocking off the rightmost lane that the car needed to turn into, it couldn't complete the right turn on its route. Mind you, it was a multi-lane road with light traffic, and if it just went around the cones, the catastrophe would have been avoided. 

But the AI driver was confused and stalled the car, which called Roadside Assistance. While Johnson waited for help to arrive, the car decided that if at first you don't succeed, try, try again. It made the turn, but the car then stopped between the rightmost lane and the next, then backed up a little, effectively blocking the whole lane as it stopped between two traffic cones.  Read more...

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