Autonomous driving service Waymo just unlocked a new fear for everyone, and perhaps gave new fodder for Final Destination writers, after a self-driving car trapped a Miami rider on a busy highway for nearly an hour, according to a Reddit post.
In the post, a Reddit user accuses Waymo’s emergency protocol of failing so spectacularly that they nearly ended up in a wreck on the MacArthur Causeway (a popular thoroughfare connecting downtown Miami to South Beach). Waymo began offering its autonomous driving service in Miami in late January, after more than a year of mapping and test drives throughout the Magic City.
The user hailed a Waymo vehicle on Monday to go from the Phillip & Patricia Frost Museum of Science to the Design District, a trip of less than four miles. All lanes of Biscayne Boulevard were closed for construction, the post reads, so the self-driving car used the MacArthur Causeway instead…