Why You Should Want Driverless Cars On Roads Now

all right i'm about to go for my first ever ride in a fully autonomous vehicle whoa no driver [Music] all right good morning derek this car is all yours with no one up front i really like the idea of fully autonomous vehicles but it's weird getting into a car with no driver and just trusting the car i'm gonna report back how this ride goes and how i feel about it oh but full disclosure this video is sponsored by waymo ride sure your seat belt is fastened for any questions press the help button to speak with a writer support agent okay now let's see where we go it's looking at this car coming here what's it going to do huh and then pulls in very smoothly behind it no problems did not turn into traffic waited until the cars went and then it turned i like that i polled youtube viewers about autonomous vehicles and half of you are excited and ready for them to be on the roads but over 40 said you thought the technology was still over 10 years away and for those people i have news which is that well there is no driver in this car i'm currently inside a fully autonomous vehicle driving around a suburb of phoenix arizona and now i get that in some parts of the world like the roads aren't well enough maintained and you know people don't stay in their lane necessarily and so be very hard for a computer to drive there but at least under good conditions the technology is currently functional now waymo started out as the google self-driving car project with what is possibly one of the cutest cars ever made i am inside the world's first fully autonomous vehicle back in october 2015 this car went on a public road ridden by steve mann who has a disability he is legally blind but he could get around in this thing which is affectionately known as the firefly this is such a simple vehicle there's basically nothing in here there's no steering wheel no dashboard this car is super basic there is no ac but there is an emergency stop button that's my favorite button in the car it reminds me of elevators you know one of the important measures that they had to put in automatic elevators was a big ...