My rides in a fully driverless Waymo

While in Arizona to visit family over the holidays, I drove out to the suburbs southeast of Phoenix to hail a ride in one of Waymo’s driverless vehicles. I had been in one before, accompanied by a safety driver, but this was my first time back in the state since Waymo went fully driverless with its public rides in 2020 — I wanted to see for myself what it was like to have a ghost behind the wheel. So, on the first Sunday in January, I took my father and my two children to a Walmart parking lot in Tempe, just inside Waymo One’s 50-square-mile service area. It seemed as good a place as any for my first robo-taxi ride. Here are my five takeaways:

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