The future of driving is autonomous with Dmitri Dolgov of Waymo

Hello and welcome to how I built this lab. I'm Guy Raz. There's no driver. How crazy is this? Crazy. This is your first time ever. You're gonna look at this as an adult when all cars are driverless. You're gonna be like, yep. I did this driverless drive with Daddy.

So it's probably hard to tell from the sound alone, but what you're hearing is audio from a ride I recently took in a Waymo Autonomous Taxi. My son and I were in San Francisco heading across the city. These taxis are now all over San Francisco and Phoenix, and Yes, there is no human driver. There's no human in the car at all, unless you count me and my son, who were passengers. It's a ghost driver, and if I'm being totally honest... They're amazing. The Waymo Taxi is now available 24-7 in San Francisco and Phoenix, and it operates similar to Uber or Lyft. Pull out your phone, you fire up the app, order the car, and it magically appears within minutes. Except

It's fully autonomous. Waymo was spun out of Google a few years ago, but the project to Build autonomous vehicles at Google actually goes back to 2009. One of the engineers on that project was Dmitry Dolgov. He's been with Waymo from the very beginning and today He's the company's co CEO.

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