James McHugh

But I got it on video.

So we were in a blue bottle coffee shop, which is downtown San Francisco, financial district.

And a Waymo car, one of these driverless cars, comes around the corner.

There's a truck coming down the hill.

It's a pretty steep hill.

So the Waymo car comes around the corner.

kind of slowly realizes, I'm not going to get through here.

Truck keeps creeping forward.

Second Waymo car comes around the corner, stops behind the first.

Third one comes around the corner, stops behind the second.

So I start videoing this thinking, all right, this is interesting.

Like, I don't know how much AI can handle here because you've now got three cars waiting for a truck where the first car's realized it can't get through.

But what's the third car going to do?

Because it can't see the first car or the truck.

It might overtake.

For example, right?

So that's exactly what it does.

It starts by reversing and then going for an overtake, then realizes when it sees the truck, that's not cool, this isn't going to work, and ends up waiting for traffic to pass and reverses back around the corner, which point the second car does exactly the same thing, reverses around the corner.

First car reverses back down, lets the truck pass, three cars go up the hill.

Managed all of it by itself.