A video of one of Waymo’s autonomous ride-hailing vehicles driving over the carefully groomed lawn of a golf course has gone viral on social media.

“Waymo spotted on golf course, late for tee time?” a user wrote on subreddit dedicated to the company’s self-driving efforts. “Wonder what happened with this one.”

While many interpreted the video as a particularly egregious instance of a driverless taxi getting confused, the company informed Futurism in an email that there was a perfectly reasonable explanation.

Waymo says the car was being driven by a human driver — and not just being supervised as it navigated on its own — as part of a series of concerts called the Sunset Sessions, which take place at the Penmar Golf Course in Los Angeles, California.

While the latest incident didn’t inv

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