Robotaxis do the darnedest things. They get swept away in floodwaters. They sometimes drive straight into exploding fireworks. And in Miami Beach, they seem to love snarling traffic.
In the latest instance of a driverless Waymo vehicle wreaking havoc on South Florida’s roadways, a 21-second video shared online by ABC News shows two of the cars locked in an apparent standoff at an intersection near Fifth Street and Alton Road in Miami Beach. The camera pans between the cars as they sit motionless, almost eyeing each other in a showdown, while the person filming narrates the traffic building up behind one of them.
“So we have two driverless vehicles trying to make a turn, and I guess they can’t figure it out,” the person recording says…