There was no emergency! The car wasn't "spinning", it was just driving around a parking lot and failing to find a location to stop. This was a navigation failure, not a control failure. And the solution is to call the human operators who can control it remotely. Which is what happened, and they did. Pulling an "emergency stop" level would have made things worse and not better.
Is it embarassing for Waymo? Sure. But the BBC basically lied to you here, and you bought it. The circumstance you're imagining is not what happened. Just watch the video.
Is it embarassing for Waymo? Sure. But the BBC basically lied to you here, and you bought it. The circumstance you're imagining is not what happened. Just watch the video.