- The vehicle was seen swerving across a highway in Phoenix, Arizona, last week.
- The autonomous car was seen crossing the bike lane in the viral video
- Chris Simons took the video and said he would have been “scared” if he had been inside.
Terrifying footage has emerged showing a Waymo self-driving vehicle swerving down a highway in Arizona.
The video, which has now gone viral, was shared last Monday and shows the driverless SUV all over the highway in Phoenix.
Chris Simons captured the video and shared it on his Instagram account, saying the vehicle had been following a landscaping truck that had a tree in its cab.
Simons said in his post that he would have been “scared” if he had been inside the car, which is owned by Google parent company Alphabet.
The video shows the Jaguar I-PACE crossing an intersection before entering the highway’s cycle lane.
The video, which has now gone viral, was shared last Monday showing the driverless car all over the Phoenix highway.
Simons then speeds up the video to show the vehicle continuing to cross the road while braking intermittently.
When the video ends, he approaches the vehicle to show that there is no one behind the wheel.
He added: “I caught a Waymo struggling to stay in its lane. It swerved all over the road and headed onto the sidewalk several times.
“I was following a landscape truck with a tree on the back, I’m not sure if that was the problem but it still would have scared me if I was in it.”
Since Simons shared the video, social media users have mocked the video and raised safety concerns.
One person posted: “Thank God there were no cyclists in your lane.”
Another commented: “They need to get these self-driving cars off the streets for good.”
While another joked: “It diverted Waymo from what was necessary.”
The video shows the Jaguar I-PACE crossing an intersection before turning onto the highway’s cycle lane.
A Waymo autonomous vehicle traveling on Oak Street in San Francisco on November 17, 2023.
A Waymo autonomous vehicle on Steiner Street in San Francisco, on November 17, 2023
AZFamily reported last week that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating nearly two dozen accidents and violations involving automobiles.
Records reviewed by the outlet show that there were 22 incidents in the state of Arizona alone that are currently being investigated. Two were injured.
Waymo uses light detection to create a 3D image of your surroundings, a 360-degree camera, radar and an onboard computer to detect objects hundreds of meters away and navigate city streets.
In February of this year, the company issued a software recall after two of its vehicles collided with a tow truck in December.
The incident occurred in Phoenix, Arizona, when a Waymo vehicle misjudged the location of a van, causing a collision.
The truck continued driving and a few minutes later was hit by another Waymo vehicle.
The company announced the recall calling the incident a “rare event” and said it had begun rolling out a software update across its fleet.
DailyMail.com has contacted Waymo for comment.
