Waymo Self Driving Demo Confirms What We Knew All Along- Your Days Of Having Fun While Driving Are Numbered

Riding in Waymo’s fully autonomous Chrysler Pacifica minivan is amazing and boring at the same time.

Amazing because it whizzes around the test track here at an abandoned Air Force base without anyone in the front seats; boring because it does everything so effortlessly there’s nothing to get excited about.

Potential threats lurk everywhere on the test track: there are technicians posing as distracted bicyclists and pedestrians, simulated construction areas and impatient drivers entering roundabouts out of turn. It could be as scary as a Halloween funhouse, but instead the minivan calmly avoids every hazard without drama or screeching tires. A display screen in front of us shows the vehicle is seeing every potential interaction long in advance.

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SanJoseDriver - 11/20/2017 5:33:57 AM

-7 Boost

Waymo will not sell cars, you will call them on demand with your phone. Expect each ride to cost less than UBER.

SanJoseDriver - 11/20/2017 5:35:11 AM

-7 Boost

If you did want to buy one, a car with full-self driving capabilities starts at $43k before incentives (Tesla Model 3).

Tiberius1701A - 11/6/2017 12:26:09 PM

+5 Boost

Nice try. Never...I mean NEVER will I allow a cluster of chips and sensors to take over my control-except ABS/Trac/skid control, that is-of my personal conveyance. I think that I am in the majority here. At least I hope I am.

SanJoseDriver - 11/20/2017 5:32:38 AM

-6 Boost

Don't worry, you'll be using self-driving cars within a decade for sure.

TheSteve - 11/6/2017 4:15:44 PM

+7 Boost

The demise of the PC is greatly exaggerated. Similarly, the prediction of the imminent demise of enjoying driving a car is greatly exaggerated. Shall we reconvene in 5 and 10 years for a checkpoint?