I put my life in the hands of a driverless car on San Francisco’s anarchic streets
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I put my life in the hands of a driverless car on San Francisco’s anarchic streets

The Telegraph  

The unnerving part is the steering wheel. The wheel of the Waymo Jaguar I-Pace spins left and right of its own accord as you pull away from the curb and into San Francisco traffic, as if it is possessed. The steering wheel is so uncanny partly because driverless cars really have no need for them. Waymo’s next generation of vehicles will not have any wheel at all, so watching its ghostly swings from left to right feels like a temporary bridge between present and future, the 21st century equivalent of the flagmen that accompanied horseless carriages. After a while, sitting in the back of a driverless car feels almost mundane: the fact that your life is in the hands of a computer casually forgotten.

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