{"id":52262,"date":"2025-09-30T15:22:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/52262\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T15:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:22:12","slug":"waymo-driverless-taxi-pulled-over-by-california-police-after-illegal-u-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/52262\/","title":{"rendered":"Waymo driverless taxi pulled over by California police after illegal U-turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"chUtUYRubdi\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOfficers&#8230; contacted the company to let them know about the \u2018glitch.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"chUtUYRubdi\" style=\"display:none\">Waymo told AFP its autonomous driving system has been designed to obey the rules.<\/p>\n<p class=\"chUtUYRubdi\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe are looking into this situation and are committed to improving road safety through our ongoing learnings and experience,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"chUtUYRubdi\" style=\"display:none\">Waymo operates fleets of driverless taxis in and around a small number of major US cities, including San Francisco and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"chUtUYRubdi\" style=\"display:none\">The vehicles \u2013 white Jaguars equipped with an array of sensors \u2013 navigate around known cityscapes using an onboard mapping and computing system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"chUtUYRubdi\" style=\"display:none\">Despite their unnerving appearance, with an empty front seat and a steering wheel that turns on its own, the vehicles have proved popular with passengers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"chUtUYRubdi\" style=\"display:none\">&#8211; Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cOfficers&#8230; contacted the company to let them know about the \u2018glitch.\u2019\u201d Waymo told AFP its autonomous driving system&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[74,138,3595,179,9174,44867,15211,1668,16484,5812,111,139,69,2847,1523,675,26525,9979,7248,44868,165,2846,684,8229,20110,44869,26226,44866,1316],"class_list":["post-52262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-after","tag-business","tag-by","tag-california","tag-discover","tag-driverless","tag-drivers","tag-front","tag-illegal","tag-make","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-only","tag-over","tag-police","tag-pulled","tag-right","tag-seat","tag-taxi","tag-their","tag-them","tag-there","tag-they","tag-thought","tag-uturn","tag-watched","tag-waymo","tag-when"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}