‘No driver, no hands, no clue’: California cops pull over robot taxi; left scratching heads on who to ticket

California police officers conducting a grant-funded DUI enforcement operation in San Bruno had an unusual encounter last week when they pulled over a driverless Waymo taxi for making an illegal U-turn, authorities said. The incident occurred at a traffic light on Friday evening. The autonomous vehicle committed the infraction in front of officers, who quickly realised there was no one behind the wheel. “That’s right… No driver, no hands, no clue,” the San Bruno Police Department wrote on social media, adding that they contacted Waymo to report the glitch. Since the vehicle had no human operator, police could not issue a traditional citation, joking that their ticket books “don’t have a box for ‘robot’”. Waymo, which operates self-driving taxis in cities including San Francisco,