- The vehicle was spotted last week weaving along a road in Phoenix, Arizona
- In the viral video, the autonomous car was seen entering the bike lane
- Chris Simons recorded the video and said he would have “freaked out” if he had been inside
Creepy footage has emerged of a self-driving Waymo car weaving down an Arizona road.
The video, which has now gone viral, was shared last Monday and showed the self-driving SUV all over Phoenix.
Chris Simons captured the video and shared it on his Instagram account, saying the vehicle was following a landscape truck with a tree in the cab.
Simons said in his post that he would have “panicked” if he had been in the car, which is owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet.
The video shows the Jaguar I-PACE crossing an intersection before entering the cycle lane on the road.
The video, which has now gone viral, was shared last Monday and showed the self-driving car all over the road in Phoenix
Simons then speeds up the video to show the vehicle continuing to criss-cross the road while intermittently braking.
At the end of the video, he pulls up next to the vehicle to show that no one is behind the wheel.
He added, “I caught a Waymo struggling to stay in its lane. Swing all the way and go to the curb several times.
“He was following a landscaping truck with a tree in the back. I’m not sure if that was the problem, but I still would have panicked if I was in it.’
Since Simons shared the video, social media users have both mocked the video and raised safety concerns.
One person wrote: ‘Thank God there were no cyclists in their lane.’
Another commented: “They need to get these self-driving cars off the streets forever.”
While another joked: ‘It swerved Waymo more than it needed to.’
The video shows the Jaguar I-PACE crossing an intersection before entering the cycle lane on the road
An autonomous Waymo vehicle driving down 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 crashes and violations involving the cars.
Data reviewed by the outlet shows that there have been 22 incidents in the state of Arizona alone that are currently under investigation. Two resulted in injuries.
Waymo uses light detection to create a 3D image of the environment, a 360-degree camera, a radar and an on-board computer to detect objects hundreds of meters away and navigate city streets.
In February 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 pickup truck and caused a collision.
The truck continued driving and was struck by a separate Waymo car a few minutes later.
The company announced the recall, calling the incident a “rare event” and saying it had begun rolling out a software update to its entire fleet.
DailyMail.com has reached out to Waymo for comment.