A California man's ride to Phoenix Sky Harbor took an unexpected turn when his Waymo started going in circles.

A Scottsdale visitor found himself trapped in a robo-taxi, doing circles in a parking lot while trying to get to the airport. Waymo needs to explain.

(Gray News) - A man nearly missed his flight because he was stuck inside a self-driving Waymo taxi that kept driving in circles. The incident happened last month at the Scottsdale Airport in Arizona. Mike Johns said he was in one of Waymo’s humanless cars to get to the airport when everything went haywire.

Waymo said the looping event has since been addressed by a regularly scheduled software updates. The rider, who was not charged, was delayed for about five minutes before the car drove to the destination, according to Waymo, which said it has attempted to contact the customer.

Mike Johns was trying to get to an Arizona airport, but his robotaxi kept driving in loops in a Scottsdale parking lot. The company says the problem has been addressed.

Passenger Mike Johns says he got into the driverless Waymo taxi to take him from a car rental drop-off to the airport in Scottsdale, Arizona. All at once, he says the taxi started going in circles right in the parking lot.

Mike Johns, the founder of a tech strategy company, shared a nauseating video on social media of his Waymo car driving out of control as he raced to catch a flight out of Scottsdale, Arizona. '

A tech-savvy man was trapped inside a Waymo robotaxi on his way to the airport. The car kept making loops in a parking lot

The captive rider recorded himself calling Waymo customer service to report ... Johns was on a return trip to LA from Scottsdale, Arizona when the incident happened, CBS News reports.

That was the experience of a passenger using Waymo, the Alphabet-owned autonomous ... recorded the vehicle driving in loops in a parking lot in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Dec. 9, and posted video ...

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The vehicles Waymo receives from Geely, it says, are “base vehicles,” stripped of telematics systems and any other technology that would allow the vehicle to communicate with, or send data back to, its manufacturer. Only “authorized personnel” install Waymo's self-driving technology into the cars after they’re delivered to the United States.