An autonomous Waymo car has been pulled over by police in Phoenix, Arizona and the incident on 18 June was caught on body camera after the officer observed the vehicle ‘going haywire’ in traffic.

“I couldn’t help but come over here just out of morbid curiosity. I thought maybe there was a passenger,” a passerby said to the officer, according to FOX10 Phoenix.

The officer replies, “You know the construction here? It was going eastbound in the westbound lanes, which is real bad. So I light it up and it takes off in the intersection.”

While most Waymo cars can be seen throughout the city driving safely and behaving civilly, erratic driving is not completely out of the question for artificial intelligence.

Phil Briggs was nearly sideswiped by a Waymo car in an unrelated incident.

“It was making a right onto Washington, almost hit me. I had to swerve into the fast lane,” he said. “My son saw an accident, we’ve seen them dead in the water in the middle of the intersection. I don’t see any good from it at all.”

In a statement, Waymo said, “Waymo cars are better drivers than humans and are three-and-a-half times more likely to avoid crashes.”

In the case last month involving police, Waymo says the construction signage on 7th and Osborn Road was inconsistent, and because the officer blocked the car, it had to impede oncoming traffic. 

The whole ordeal only lasted a minute.

“If you or I were driving like that and we get pulled over, we get a ticket. So somebody needs to be held accountable,” Briggs said.

Phoenix Police say they can cite Waymo, but it’s not something they need to do often. Officers, though, are trained to deal with robot-operated cars.