Shorts
What happened
In Atlanta, residents watched as dozens of driverless Waymo taxis — the kind you can already hail like an Uber — turned into a residential cul-de-sac and just started circling. Nobody was inside them. Nobody called them there. They kept going for hours.
Why it matters
The context behind the story.
Self-driving cars are already on public streets in several American cities. Most of the time they work fine. But moments like this are a reminder that when something goes wrong, there's no driver to ask why — and no easy way to make them stop.
Takeaway
Nobody ordered them. Nobody could stop them. Forty driverless cars just decided a neighborhood was their new roundabout.
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