Watch this self-driving Waymo taxi circle a parking lot instead of taking its passenger to the airport

WTF?! We're now as close to the year 2050 as the year 2020. Technology has come a long way, but it's far from perfect. Just ask the man who couldn't get to the airport on time because the self-driving Waymo he was in kept driving around a parking lot in circles.

Mike Johns was heading back home to LA from Scottsdale, Arizona in December, traveling to the airport in one of Waymo's autonomous vehicles.

As Johns described the incident on LinkedIn, he entered the driverless car, buckled up, and set off on his journey. But the taxi had other ideas: it started driving in circles around a parking lot.

Johns captured the disturbing moment on video, during which he calls Waymo customer service. "I got a flight to catch. Why is this thing going in a circle? I'm getting dizzy," Johns said. "It's circling ...