The First Ride in a Self Driving Car

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This was the first ride that we had taken in self driving cars, where there was not a safety driver. There is something amazing about just seeing the steering wheel turn itself. It did almost swerve us into a median, which led the human driver on the other side of us to roll down his window and say, you guys should report that thing.

At its biggest event of the year, Google announced an avalanche of A.I. product releases: A.I. in search, A.I. that writes emails and A.I. that generates slides. Is Google pulling ahead in the A.I. arms race?

And, after years of hype, self-driving cars are finally hitting the streets of American cities. Kevin and Casey take a ride through San Francisco in Banana Slug — an autonomous vehicle from the self-driving car company Cruise. After their ride, they sit down with Cruise’s chief executive, Kyle Vogt, to discuss the role he thinks self-driving cars will play in the future of transportation.

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Kyle Vogt is the chief executive of Cruise, a self-driving car company.

Additional reading:

At their annual conference, Google announced dozens of A.I. products and features
In a leaked memo, a Google researcher argued that the company did not have a strong A.I. moat because of open-source A.I. companies.
Self-driving cars are expanding their footprint.