Traffic & Transit

‘Bizarre’ Video Shows Person Apparently Asleep In Self-Driving Car On Pike

It was a frightening scene for one witness on the Massachusetts Turnpike Sunday — a driver apparently asleep at the wheel.

Video shows a person apparently asleep at the wheel of a self-driving car in Newton.
Video shows a person apparently asleep at the wheel of a self-driving car in Newton. (Dakota Randall)

NEWTON — It was a frightening scene for one witness on the Massachusetts Turnpike Sunday — a driver apparently asleep at the wheel. Video posted to Twitter seems to show the car on auto-pilot, without an alert person in the driver’s seat.

“It was just so strange and baffling” said Dakota Randall, who shot the video while driving through Newton on the highway. “I thought I saw somebody asleep at the wheel, but I wasn’t sure so I did a double-take. Sure enough there was somebody with his head right between his legs.”

In the video, the driver is hunched over and seemingly fast asleep. A person in the passenger seat doesn’t look to be awake either.

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