Took my first Waymo in Austin, TX last weekend and it did not go well. Was supposed to be a 9 minute drive, then randomly it tells us the ride has been 'slightly extended' to 45 minutes. Customer support dropped us off at a restaurant and said sorry. We ordered a human Uber.
Honestly the last thing I thought would happen would be that it would get lost. I thought maybe it would get confused on the road, but it drove better than most human drivers.
There's something about the Uber-hailed Waymos that makes them so much worse than regular Waymos IMO.
Did it think it needed to take a very out of the way route?
The perfect driving equivalent of AI slop
Super weird! I've been using Waymo's regularly for 3 years now, couple of times a week and this has never happened.