Autonomous vehicle stopped after unsafe driving in Phoenix, Phoenix AZ


Police attempted to stop an autonomous Waymo vehicle driving unsafely near 24th Street and Air Lane, Phoenix. The vehicle cut off a police car and failed to yield at an intersection. The Waymo stopped on the shoulder with no driver inside, and a second Waymo pulled up behind it.
Audio|Source: Chandler Police and Fire, Phoenix Fire
03:25
Transcript:
00:00
Good 9-07.
00:01
Q me for a minute. I'm going to try to pull over a Waymo.
00:10
I'm not sure how this is going to go. I'm at near 24th Street and Air Lane.
00:17
I mean that was near 24th Street and Air Lane?
00:26
Okay, sir.
00:29
Arizona, 4, George Adams, 7, George D. Brux.
00:34
We're eastbound on Air Lane at 5 miles an hour on the right side of the shoulder.
00:42
I copy. We're 5 miles per hour. Eastbound on Air Lane now in the right shoulder.
00:50
1029, 7, Adams, 7 George, Zebra, 4,
00:53
26, 2024, January, I face, 2E, subject out of correction, to Weimo, out of Tamara, right, 946.
01:00
Yeah,
01:05
Waymo, we're getting a little crazy here,
01:07
just hard now,
01:10
I'm back on the right, so I'm going to figure out what I want to do here.
01:15
And, well, we'll try their contact their dispatches as well, sir.
01:19
Okay,
01:28
733. I copy. You're gonna cut it off and stop it.
01:33
Was there another unit covered?
01:36
31, I see.
01:38
731, 10.4.
01:42
33, I've got the WAMO stopped.
01:44
There's no one driving. Let me trip to the passenger.
01:49
I caught it, I copy you have it stopped, no driver will check for a passenger.
01:58
The rack will not go unless we can go first and determine whether or not they are needed.
02:09
3733, a copy door will not open.
02:12
Do you have a vehicle number or anything on that so we can give Waymoser?
02:20
The 28 I gave you.
02:24
I got the only number is the 1028.
02:26
Then up to you know that intersection. It turned up right in front of me and pump me off as they hit the brakes.
02:41
Was it failed to yield at an intersection and cut you off and you had to brake? Alright, not great.
02:55
The out of Mesa on a 23 Toyota GR86.
03:05
3 and the kind of fixing all there where you're an armine on steam with stop with gas and more advice when discriminating the call.
03:13
Turn 4.
03:22
I copy another Waymo has now pulled up behind you.
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