Austin Officials Scrutinize Waymo Incidents, Push for New Oversight

When Austin first responders rushed to West Sixth Street just around 2am on March 1, they were responding to a mass shooting near Buford’s Backyard Beer Garden that killed four people, including the gunman, and injured 15 others.

At 1:58am, the first 911 call came in. Within minutes, police, fire, and EMS were moving through Downtown to reach victims.

“Approximately eight minutes later … the Waymo stopped in the middle of [Nueces] street and blocked the responding ambulance,” Austin-Travis County EMS Commander Roger Patterson said during an April 29 joint meeting of the city’s Public Safety and Mobility committees. The ambulance rerouted…

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