But these trials haven’t been without speed bumps. Passengers of self-driving Waymo cars in San Francisco say that their trips have been cut short because of vandals or those opposed to robot cars.
In 2024,a man covered the sensors of the robotaxi that had stopped. The cars stop moving when a person is nearby as a safety precaution.
Other passengers say they have become trapped inside while their cab is being tagged by graffiti artists or when a man asked for her phone number.
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Travellers with flights to Catania, Sicily, have been urged to check the status of their journey.
Abigail Lainton was travelling with her siblings on a tourist vessel from the Saona Island in the Dominican Republic when it suddenly blew up in the water.
More than 800 people are still missing.
The temperature was 48°C at the time.