After loading the patient into an ambulance, a black-and-white car pulled up and blocked the path.
It was a driverless vehicle operated by Waymo, an autonomous car company that Google’s parent, Alphabet, owned.
With no human driver to instruct to move out of the way, Mr. Wood spoke through a device in the car to a remote operator, who said someone would come take the vehicle away.
Instead, another autonomous Waymo car arrived and blocked the other side of the street, Mr. Wood said.
But the self-driving cars added seven minutes to the emergency response, he said.
Persons:
Adam Wood, Wood
Organizations:
San, Waymo
Locations:
San Francisco, city’s