Two young people riding in an autonomous vehicle were arrested in San Francisco after authorities allegedly found them in possession of an illegal \u201cghost gun.\u201d<\/p>\n
San Francisco Police Department did not identify the operator of the autonomous vehicle, but a Waymo spokesperson confirmed to The Times that the incident involved one of its cars. <\/p>\n
The company pulled the car over after detecting a \u201cviolation of our terms of service involving a firearm,\u201d the spokesperson said. The company alerted emergency services and \u201ccooperated fully\u201d with San Francisco police.<\/p>\n
The incident took place shortly before 4 a.m. on Sept. 3 in the city\u2019s Richmond District, the Police Department said in a statement <\/a> Thursday.<\/p>\n The department said officers conducted a \u201chigh-risk vehicle stop\u201d and detained the two juvenile passengers \u2014 a boy and girl. The statement did not identify them further.<\/p>\n Officers searched the car and discovered a loaded, AR-style assault rifle, as well as \u201csuspected marijuana and mace spray,\u201d authorities said in the statement.<\/p>\n The investigation remains \u201copen and active,\u201d police said. The passengers were taken into custody and to a juvenile hall.<\/p>\n San Francisco police did not immediately respond to The Times\u2019 request for comment Friday. <\/p>\n This wasn\u2019t the first time Waymo has tattled on alleged troublemakers. In July, Waymo contacted<\/a> the San Mateo Police Department after two teens were found drinking alcohol and shooting toy guns in the back of a car, authorities said at the time. <\/p>\n Waymo\u2019s roots date back to 2009, when it was founded as Google\u2019s self-driving car project. Waymo spun out of Google in 2016<\/a>, and has since drastically expanded its service footprint. The hat-topped cars are now a fixture in San Francisco and Los Angeles, and even sparked a beeping backlash <\/a>in Santa Monica.<\/p>\n The company this month launched paid service in San Diego, Denver and Tampa, Fla. Last month, it won permission from the California Public Utilities Commission<\/a> to operate in San Diego, Sacramento and communities in Orange and Riverside counties, among others.<\/p>\n The company has occasionally made headlines for bizarre incidents involving its driverless cars. In July, a shirtless man<\/a> in East Hollywood was recorded standing on top of a Waymo while dismantling the car. In 2025, a man in downtown Los Angeles was taken into custody<\/a> when he allegedly tried to get behind the wheel of a Waymo and drive off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two young people riding in an autonomous vehicle were arrested in San Francisco after authorities allegedly found them…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6577,7,9,8,283,1804,8901,5811,4456,5679,63,2322,590,74,101,4747,7951,5987],"class_list":["post-461667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-authority","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-car","tag-company","tag-custody","tag-ghost-gun","tag-incident","tag-july","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-officer","tag-police-department","tag-san-diego","tag-san-francisco","tag-service","tag-statement-thursday","tag-waymo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}