"Waymo's autonomous ride-hailing service is going through a lot of firsts these days. Earlier this week, a pregnant woman in San Francisco gave birth inside one of the company's self-driving vehicles while taking it to the hospital in lieu of an ambulance. Now, a different woman has experienced a very different kind of first when she hailed a Waymo cab for her daughter in Los Angeles."
""Why the f*** are you in the trunk?!" the mother yells at him. "This s*** won't let me out," he replied, while punching the back of the headrest. "They put me in here," the man claimed. "The people. The people." In a followup video, the mother can be heard chatting remotely with a Waymo representative while the man was being apprehended by two police officers on the sidewalk after being freed from the trunk."
A passenger discovered a stranger hiding in the trunk of a Waymo autonomous vehicle after hailing the service for her daughter in Los Angeles. The woman confronted the man, who shouted that something "won't let me out" and claimed "They put me in here." Police apprehended the man on the sidewalk after he was freed from the trunk, while the woman communicated with a Waymo representative remotely. Waymo acknowledged the incident, called the experience unacceptable, and said it is implementing changes to address safety. Online users expressed shock, disbelief, and speculation about the motive.
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