New Delhi, Nov. 22 -- A simple communication mix-up between a tech professional and his cab driver has taken over social media - thanks to a translation error that briefly turned an Uber pickup into a life-or-death situation.

Arnav Gupta, who works at Meta, shared on X (formerly Twitter) that he had asked his Uber driver to wait a couple of minutes while he stepped out of his home. Moments later, he received a notification that read: "I am facing the threat of murder."

The unexpected alert left him stunned.

"Is he threatening to murder me because I made him wait? Or is someone threatening him because he blocked the road?" Gupta wrote, describing the panic that followed.

Trying to understand the context, he tapped the translation optio...