Former Self-Driving Car Operator Engineers Crash in Tempe, Cops Say

Police arrested an Arizona man Wednesday for allegedly causing an autonomous car to ram his own vehicle. But what might sound like just another day in the desert paradise of Tempe got weirder when the suspect turned out to have a history as a vehicle operator linked to the manufacturer of the high-tech car in question, Google’s Waymo. According to Tempe police, Raymond Tang, 31, admitted to Tempe police that he was “brake checking” a Waymo car—or slamming the br