A FOX 4 viewer’s dashcam caught a Waymo self-driving car blowing through a red light in busy Dallas traffic, and the video is making waves online. The incident happened on Irving Boulevard over the weekend, when a Waymo robotaxi rolled straight into a live intersection against a red signal, weaving through moving cars without so much as a pause. Somehow, nobody got hit.
The witness who filmed it described watching the vehicle inch forward slowly, seemingly confused, before it made the call to just go for it. “It kept going forward, going forward, almost like it was going to make a turn,” he said. “And then it just drives right out into the intersection in the traffic.” He chose not to share his name given his career in tech, but he felt the public deserved to see what he saw.
Waymo responded with a statement explaining that the traffic light appeared “heavily dimmed” from the vehicle’s position in the right-turn lane, and said the company is actively working to fix the issue. The company also made sure to drop its standard safety-first line: “Safety is our highest priority at Waymo, for our riders and everyone with whom we share the road.” Whether that reassurance lands after watching a robotic car sail through a red light is another question entirely…