Summary
Mike Johns had a strange ride in a self-driving taxi in Los Angeles that made him spin in circles in a car park. The company that made the taxi, Waymo, fixed the problem with an update to their system.
Key Facts
- Mike Johns's ride in a driverless taxi went in circles in a car park.
- He got stuck in the taxi because the car was not doing what it was supposed to do.
- Johns made a video which became very popular and was shown on TV around the world.
- The taxi was made by a company named Waymo, which is owned by the same company that owns Google.
- Waymo fixed the problem with a software update.
- This is not the first problem for Waymo. Last year, they had to bring back more than 600 cars after one hit a pole.
- Waymo runs self-driving taxis in Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Austin, Texas and is planning to start in Atlanta and Miami, Florida too.
- Other companies like General Motors and Apple have stopped working on self-driving cars, but Waymo and others are still trying to make them work.
