Waymo autonomous car blocks ambulance crew responding to deadly Austin mass shooting

Footage captured a startling moment when a Waymo self-driving vehicle briefly blocked Austin ambulance crews rushing to the scene of Sunday's deadly mass shooting.

The incident occurred around 2 a.m. at a popular entertainment hub, where a gunman fatally shot three people and wounded 13 more. 

In the footage, the Waymo car comes to a sideways stop in the road as an ambulance heads up the street with flashing lights.  

As the vehicle appeared slow to react, intermittently moving and stopping, visibly distressed witnesses shouted at it to move.

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Moments later, an Austin police car arrives, and an officer enters the Waymo vehicle, driving it into a nearby garage.

The company told Fox News Digital that, in the wake of the shooting, a Waymo car had been hailed by a rider for pickup when it identified a "road blockage and began executing a U-turn." 

As the ambulance appeared mid-turn, the car then "briefly yielded an...