PHOENIX (AZFamily) —A massive storm rolled through metro Phoenix on Friday, causing widespread flooding, and self-driving Waymos were spotted in rising floodwaters or pulled over along the side of the road.
Leah Sarat was a passenger in one of those self-driving SUVs during the rainstorm.
She had called for a rideshare service to take her from Tempe to her house in central Phoenix, but she didn’t make it, and the Phoenix mom noticed the vehicle doing some strange things.
“It stopped, I want to say three different times, pulled over once when there didn’t seem to be a reason to pull over,” said Sarat. “Once it took me to a side street of a residential neighborhood and just stopped.”
“The third time it actually made a turn and was turning into oncoming traffic and stopped there,” said S