Justin R. Lester takes his first ride in a Waymo self-driving car in Phoenix. The car steers itself, follows speed limits, and uses cameras and AI to track the road. He finds the ride smooth and the in-car controls intuitive.
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So I'm in Phoenix, Arizona for a conference and I got a self driving car from Waymo because it's available in Arizona. Let's see what happens. This is my first time getting a self driving car. You already know I had to try it out before I get into it like and subscribe for this journey.
Let's see what happens. This is the car arriving.
Super sick.
So nobody's in this car with me. This is, it's having a whole conversation with me telling me all this, safety features and everything. So a few things I've noticed so far. It's on go. It's going to go the speed limit. So the speed limit on the street I'm on right now is 30. So it's going to go the speed limit and it's doing that. People are not avoiding it. I did have someone say don't die. So we'll see. So we got 20 more minutes in it and we'll see how it goes. It is really weird to see a steering wheel turn and no one turn the steering wheel.
It is really weird to see that.
So as you can see, the technology is really cool. So it sees all of it, all the cameras that are on the car, get a sense of the sounds, the presence, everything. The AI is just beautiful inside of here. Even tracking this truck with a trailer, how small the calls are, how large the cars are. It's really cool. Here's the steering wheel turning. No one is turning.
Perfect.
Turn, accelerate up. Speed limit is 35. It's going to get to 35. It's getting over at the moment. Super cool.
So a little bit about while you're inside the car, you can choose the music, you can change the volume of the music inside the car. You can't do it with the knobs in the car. So you can change the volume, change the type of music you want. You can't go to different stations, but you can pick different types of music in the car. It's pretty cool. Not really blasting it. Even when I turned it up earlier, it didn't really do much to it. And as you can see, we're close to it. So you have a map that follows you the entire way. You can connect with them, give them feedback and then you can even ask the car to pull over if something is wrong.
So pretty cool. So we're about to finish up and as you can see it's about to turn into the hotel.
Twice to exit. The first hole unlocks, the second opens the door.
Been fun.
I did it. And I'm alive. So I'm alive. And I made it. That was actually pretty cool and smoother.
I. I like it a lot.
I think it's a really great thing. And I can't wait to do it again. All right.
