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Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun'

Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun"

A Waymo autonomous taxi pulled itself over and alerted police after detecting juvenile passengers with a 'ghost gun' (a privately made, unserialized firearm). Police arrested the teens. The incident shows Waymo's remote monitoring can spot in-cabin anomalies and trigger law enforcement, but raises privacy and juvenile justice questions. The article does not specify which sensors or algorithms detected the weapon, nor the standard operating procedure for police handoff.

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