I took a ride in Waymo's self driving taxi

Waymo operates a fully autonomous ride hailing service in San Francisco, Phoenix and coming soon to Los Angeles.
I took a ride in one of their fully autonomous cars in San Francisco. See how it works, from booking a ride to driving on city streets without anyone in the driver's seat.

[zackmollusc]

I was worried about how the robocar would handle the junctions and other traffic, but having watched some guy tell me about how to put luggage in the car and charge his phone I now have complete faith in the sensors and the predictive algorithms used to make the robocar safe on the roads. Good job.

[mjg]

This is an advertorial for Waymo. I’m pretty sure this is sponsored content paid for by the company to KTLA. I’m not mad at it. I just wish there was a “sponsored content” ticker somewhere in the story so we know when it’s paid news story or not.

[DrSaav-myym]

in the future hackers are going to love self driving cars

[liftnd]

Only seen these video of cars in perfect sunny day operations. How about a ride through Chicago in January!?

[lleon-cvex]

Who was in the front seat though? Part of the crew or with the car company?

[denisechavers-bates]

My family and I took rides in Waymo in Phoenix this week. It was great and safe. Looking forward to Waymo coming to LA.

[shatteredscry]

Im imagining the AI cars having road rage.
They see every imperfection about our driving. Its going to pass me 5mph above the speed limit blaring its horn at me while siri cusses me out 😂

[magurotuna]

It's all fun until a basement dweller starts hacking the car and gives u the ride of ur life with a wild police chase as the icing on the cake

[motlevi]

There was no one in the driver's seat, but who was the woman in the front passenger seat, evidently hiding from the camera?

[Alanc]

Hmm 🤔 Johnny Cab from the movie, Total Recall ??😂

[ggowan]

Great to see how much fun you had with that story! Loved it!

[jofbeats]

I really feel like in near future its gonna put both uber, lift, and cab drivers in general out of jobs if more self driving cabs are being used

[wildone]

The last people had the funny idea of putting 69 as the current temp I see lol 🤣

[oeao]

I'd sit in the middle back seat 💺 incase there's a crash

[RaymondHng]

ABC7 News SF Bay Area reporter Lyanne Melendez took a Waymo to the Randall Museum in San Francisco. It never reached the destination. The closest it arrived to the destination then required a five-minute walk. It appears the vehicle is not programmed to go down dead end streets. Her frustrating experience titled "TV journalist documents wild ride inside Waymo self-driving car in San Francisco" can be viewed on the ABC7 News Bay Area YouTube channel.

[CentralValleyOperator]

If that thing can drive in San Francisco it can drive anywhere! Driving in San Francisco is easily one of the hardest places to drive.

[neroknight]

I love the concept but I can never trust this type of technology with my life lol. Only auto vehicle I would get into would be a train or maybe a plane

[leonardschoenborn]

Since the layout of the streets of San Francisco can be extremely convoluted, I am very surprised there are not more issues. I find it extremely impressive that Waymo obtained regulatory approval and put robotaxi's on the road before Tesla despite all their publicity and hype that pervades the internet. Congratulations!!!
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[SuZull]

In the future, there are no taxi drivers anymore. Just only self driving taxi driver

[mandman]

In recent months, the autonomous vehicles have been caught in countless hit and run incidents, have held up emergency responders THANK YOU @Waymo