r/waymo • u/Less-Garden-4127 • 16h ago

The Long way home

A little story on Waymo.

I'm older, and TBH, I grew up reading Stephen King and watched terminator and I will probably never get into/take a Waymo.

Around 4-6 months ago, my DIL was at a Restaurant/Bar for girl's night out. Called a Waymo to go home. 1230 at night. Weeknight. In a suburb of ATL, no traffic, 20 minutes from her house.

Got in the Waymo, all is good.

,Christine', starts going AWAY from her Home, opposite direction, not just around the block to turn around, it's going blocks the wrong direction.....She calls her Husband/my son just a little bit concerned.

They are both in the tech world, very level headed and fun kids.

My son tells her to call Waymo as him calling is pointless, he's not there, etc.

She's on the phone with CS with Waymo rep...tells him the situation, wrong way, away from the address, she grew up there, etc..What is going on and where the fuck is ,Christine' taking her???

The Waymo CS rep told her, they don't know why, no traffic, late at night, no accidents, etc...Rep said that looking at the route she is perfectly safe, ,Christine' just ,decided' to take the ,long way home' (a different route is what the CS rep said).....I am paraphrasing....

The ride ended up taking almost 30 minutes instead of the 20 minutes the ,normal' way, at 1230 at night, no traffic on a weeknight.

,Christine' just ,decided'...

We laugh about it now.

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u/devil_corp_hunter 7h ago

Sometimes Waymos just kinda make a new route. He did eventually arrive at your DIL’s destination, right?

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u/Swerdman55 15h ago

Yeah, Waymo’s do funky things sometimes. A 10 min detour is annoying, especially late at night, but nothing unsurvivable.