A California man's ride to Phoenix Sky Harbor took an unexpected turn when his Waymo started going in circles.

(Gray News) - A man nearly missed his flight because he was stuck inside a self-driving Waymo taxi that kept driving in circles. The incident happened last month at the Scottsdale Airport in Arizona. Mike Johns said he was in one of Waymo’s humanless cars to get to the airport when everything went haywire.

The Waymo self-driving company says it has fixed a problem that caused a car to repeatedly circle a parking lot for about five minutes while its rider was trying to get to an airport.

Mike Johns was heading back home to LA from Scottsdale, Arizona in December, traveling to the airport in one of Waymo's autonomous vehicles.

Mike Johns was trying to get to an Arizona airport, but his robotaxi kept driving in loops in a Scottsdale parking lot. The company says the problem has been addressed.

Waymo said the looping event has since been addressed by a regularly scheduled software updates. The rider, who was not charged, was delayed for about five minutes before the car drove to the destination, according to Waymo, which said it has attempted to contact the customer.

Passenger Mike Johns says he got into the driverless Waymo taxi to take him from a car rental drop-off to the airport in Scottsdale, Arizona. All at once, he says the taxi started going in circles right in the parking lot.

The man nearly missed his flight after the self-driving car drove him around and around, all while he was on the phone with a customer service rep who was unable to stop the wayward vehicle.

SCOTTSDALE, AZ (AZFamily/KCAL News ... the consumers, in the middle.” Waymo told Arizona’s Family that Johns was delayed a little more than five minutes and wasn’t charged for the ...

That was the experience of a passenger using Waymo, the Alphabet-owned autonomous ... recorded the vehicle driving in loops in a parking lot in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Dec. 9, and posted video ...

This week's question: A California man nearly missed his flight home from Scottsdale, Arizona, because his Waymo self-driving taxi repeatedly circled the airport parking lot and wouldn't let him disembark. In seven or fewer words, write a ride review from a passenger who is trapped inside a robo-taxi that refuses to stop.

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