A Waymo autonomous taxi got stuck blocking the entrance to a Santa Monica Chick-Fil-A drive-through on Monday evening according to KTLA 5. The Waymo briefly served as an LGBTQ+ rights activist by staging an unintentional protest of this drive-through-only Chick-Fil-A location, preventing drive-through access during the restaurant’s final half-hour of operation. The autonomous taxi was so flummoxed by the drive-through that Waymo, the only reason anyone remembers the Jaguar I-Pace, had to send its team out to manually recover the self-driving Jag .
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Waymo recently began testing expanded services in Los Angeles that will eventually include freeway access, but the Silicon Valley-based company clearly needs to work on what could be the most important service that a taxi or rideshare can provide; chauffeuring intoxicated riders through late night drive-throughs after the bars close. Chris Kellogg, one of the people who got stuck in the Chick-Fil-A drive-through line behind the paralyzed Waymo, sent a video of the brave little autonomous activist to KTLA 5 .
“His videos showed Chick-fil-A workers standing around the stalled vehicle, which had its hazard lights on before it backed up briefly and briskly and stopped again.”…