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29 March 2018

By Alex Khalil

Ever realised that the Uber you’re in is going the wrong way? But you don’t have the heart to tell them because you’re an anxious mess? You might relate to this.

An Uber driver who claims to have been following the app’s navigation system accidentally drove down a set of stairs. A white Toyota Camry got stuck on the pedestrian walkway outside a Safeway store in San Francisco.

The driver, called ‘Fred’, told Business Insider he had been using the Uber map and the app had told him to go down the stairs. There were two passengers in the car, who had been using the service, but they were unharmed throughout the ordeal.

The car was towed away, and the San Francisco police department said there will be an ongoing investigation. Our conclusion though?

This has to be the saddest looking Toyota we’ve ever seen.

Uber confirmed with MarketWatch that the driver was driving on behalf of the company. A spokesperson had gotten in touch with the occupants to find out what had happened.

Weirdly this isn’t the first time this has happened.

In 2014, a taxi driver from Vina Cab also ended up driving down the stairs.

You think they’d just fill in the stairs to make a ramp.

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