In San Francisco earlier this year,
tech columnist Jeff Fowler and tech reporter Lisa Bonos commuted to work in a pretty unusual way.
All right, so time to call our Waymo.
I'm going to pull up the Waymo app here.
What you're hearing is Jeff summoning a car to pick up him and Lisa.
In this case, a driverless car.
It says it's almost at pickup here in the app.
And the car will wait for two minutes.
Oh, here it is.
It's approaching.
It's on the wrong side of the street.
And now it's parking in a tow-away bus zone.
Yep.
Since last June,
Waymo's driverless cars have been available to anyone who wants to take a ride around San Francisco.
Waymo is owned by Alphabet, the same parent company as Google,
and their cars have become a familiar sight in the city.
All right, let's get in.
The handles have popped open for us.
It greeted me with a, hey, Jeffrey.