I took my first self-driving car ride with my teenage son and it felt comfortably dull
Summary
I signed up to try Waymo as soon as it became available in San Francisco, and this weekend Alphabets self-driving car company finally invited me to give it a shot. My son Marlon has been obsessed with self-driving cars this year, as weve seen more and more Waymos and competing GM Cruise vehicles tootling around San Francisco without safety drivers. We thought we noticed them getting more aggressive in recent months — nothing frightening, but they seemed to be pulling into intersections and merging into lanes more assertively, just like a normal San Francisco driver would do. We fiddled with the interior console to try and connect it to my iPhone to play music from my library, but the ride was so short that I only had time to download the Google Assistant (required for that function) before it was over. As it approached our drop-off point, the voice told us that wed be ending our ride soon, and to touch the handle twice — once to unlock the door, a second time to open it.