Waymo’s autonomous vehicles just caused another terrifying traffic safety incident, with producer and actress Mikayla Petrilla posting video footage of her Waymo ride straight-up running a red light last week on TikTok. You can’t make this stuff up: as the self-driving car cruised toward an intersection in California, the light turned yellow. Instead of slowing down or stopping like it should have, the vehicle maintained its speed and crossed the solid red line, leaving its passengers absolutely yelling in alarm.
In a seven-second TikTok video, Petrilla (@heyitsmikayy) filmed the whole fiasco unfolding, narrating her shock as the AI driver went totally rogue. “Are you gonna run it?” she asked the car, a question that was immediately followed by a frantic, “You’re running the light! You’re running the light! You just ran the light!” According to The Daily Dot, she later confirmed what we all saw: “That’s right—my Waymo straight up ran a red light.”
