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Trapped! Inside a self-driving car during an anti-robot attack
…Self-driving cars are designed to stop moving if a person is nearby. People can take advantage of that function to harass and threaten their passengers. … Handing the keys to a robot has added bizarre and, at times, worrisome new quirks to car travel. Passengers have shared videos of their autonomous cars getting stuck driving in circles or becoming lost in a parking garage. Last week, a video showed a Waymo in Austin, Texas, that had stopped under a railroad crossing gate just short of the tracks before a train sped past. There were no riders in the car, Waymo said.…

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