Man arrested and accused of trying to steal a self-driving taxi in L.A.

A man faces a charge of attempted grand theft auto after someone tried — and failed — to steal a self-driving taxi in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday night.

Los Angeles police said in a statement Sunday that Vincent Maurice Jones, 33, got into a fully autonomous Waymo car just after it dropped off a passenger on Main Street north of 1st Street, near City Hall, around 10:30 p.m. Saturday.

The thief got into the driver's seat — but the theft did not go according to plan.