So the guy is in the car and he's concerned about catching his flight but when the operator asks him to do something in the waymo app he doesn't want to do it. Could it be that he'd rather keep filming for internet notoriety than stop filming and actually solve his problem?
It's interesting how quickly we've gone from discussing an interesting failure mode of autonomous robots that travel in public spaces, and switched to calling it PEBKAC. This is a unironically a great signal society is willing to accept self driving cars. Even computer security isn't this good at playing blame the user.
The signal you're seeing is the tendency of tech people to consider any risk to human safety to be less important than the benefits of the technology itself, and to always blame the human and never the tech.
You also see this manifest in any conversation about the failure modes of AI, in the inevitable knee-jerk response of "humans also do x."