POV: The apocalypse is here and dust is everywhere, but your robot driver calmly scoots onward through the low-visibility streets.

That’s the vibe of a video Waymo posted to its Reddit page on Tuesday, just a day after a massive wall of dust — what we locals call a haboob — rolled into Phoenix and engulfed everything in sight.

Waymo Navigates a Haboob in Phoenix After Monsoon Storms

by u/mingoslingo92 in waymo

It was the first such mega-dust monsoon storm of 2025 , beginning around Eloy southeast of the Phoenix metro area on Monday afternoon and walloping through the Valley’s southeast cities around 5 p.m. The beast quickly covered all of Queen Creek and Chandler before heading toward Phoenix. At Sky Harbor International Airport, flights were grounded and delayed. After it was

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