But the car opposite was slightly blocking the view of oncoming traffic. I could move my head slightly and see that there was nothing coming, but the Waymo AV's sensors apparently could not.

In a Waymo, the driver's-side door doesn't even ... the basics of where the car is going to go next," Schwendimann says. But for me, the eerie screen view only added to the surreality.

Waymo, the ride-hailing app that offers driverless robotaxis, explained what happens when someone tries to steal one of the fully autonomous, electric Jaguars — following an incident in downtown ...