WATCH: Driverless Waymo Taxi Blocks Emergency Response To Deadly Austin Shooting

A Waymo driverless taxi blocked an entire street as an ambulance attempted to respond to the deadly mass shooting at a bar in Austin, Texas, early Sunday morning.

A video of the incident went viral on social media over the weekend, and Austin officials confirmed that the Waymo robotaxi was blocking the road as first responders tried to drive to Buford’s, a popular bar near the University of Texas at Austin. The bar was the scene of a mass shooting where a Senegalese immigrant, who wore a shirt depicting the Iranian flag, killed at least two people and wounded over a dozen more.

The video shows the Waymo vehicle sitting perpendicular to the road and blocking an ambulance as EMS attempted to drive to the scene of the shooting. The robotaxi appeared to be waiting for its passengers as it blocked most of the street.

One woman was heard on the video saying, “This is why we should not have self-driving cars!”

“We just need to get in it, I think,” a man said.

The driverless car blocked the road for nearly two minutes before a police officer got into the Waymo and manually drove it off the street. By that time, the ambulance appeared to back up and take an alternate route to the scene of the shooting.

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A Waymo spokeswoman told The Daily Wire that the driverless vehicle “identified a road blockage” as it was picking up passengers and then “began executing a U-turn.” When another ambulance appeared on the street, the Waymo “briefly yielded and was assisted by a nearby officer,” according to the spokeswoman.

Matthew Turnage said that after he left, he ordered an Uber ride, and the rideshare service sent him the Waymo car.

“We left a club at 2 a.m. and were walking to get a ride home. We just so happened to get a Waymo car from Uber and when we found the car, it was trying to pick us up but got stuck in the middle of the street and blocked emergency vehicles for a couple of minutes,” Turnage told KXAN Austin.

Robert Luckritz, chief of the Austin-Travis County EMS, said on Monday that the Waymo incident likely didn’t affect the “overall” response. Luckritz added that around 20 emergency vehicles made it to the scene of the shooting, with the first emergency vehicles arriving within 57 seconds of the first 911 call.

“So in the grand scheme of the impact of the overall incident, we don’t believe it had any impact on patient outcomes,” he said.

Luckritz said that officials communicated their “concerns” with Waymo “and [are working] with them to try to address this issue moving forward.”

Austin was one of the first cities to allow driverless car companies, such as Waymo and Tesla, to put robotaxis on its streets. While Waymo argues that its robotaxis have fewer accidents than human drivers, the driverless vehicles have caused traffic jams, driven through police standoffs, and blocked emergency vehicles in the past.

Police said at a press conference that the death toll from the shooting could soon rise to three as one victim could be taken off of life support later on Monday. Federal authorities are investigating the incident as a potential terrorist attack. Along with the Iran-themed shirt, the gunman, identified as 53-year-old Ndiaga Diagne, also wore a sweatshirt emblazoned with the phrase “Property of Allah.”