Today, we have something extra special for you guys, and you guys will be some of the
first people outside of our team and outside of Google to ever ride in it.
There it is! Oh wow! Isn't that cute?
Go ahead and buckle up. Ok Annie, here we go!
Alright let's go! There's no steering wheel in the way.
Chris Urmson: It was a big decision for us to
go and start building our purpose-built vehicles. And really they're prototype vehicles. They
were a chance for us to explore: what does it really mean to have a self-driving vehicle.
But in the small amount of time we've been working on it, we have functional prototypes
and that's exciting. Thida: Oh, it's really cool! It's like really kind of a space age
experience. Annie and Judy: Okay. Hurray! We're like queens. You sit, relax, you don't
need to do nothing. It knows when it needs to stop, it knows when it needs to go. It
actually rides better than my own car. Yes. It's true. Walt and Linda: What she really
liked was that it slowed down before it went around a curve. And then it accelerated in
the curve. She's always trying to get me to do it that way. That's the way I Iearned in
high school driver's ed. Janet and Ethan: So if I had a self-driving car, I can spend
more time hanging out with my kids, or helping them with their homework, even just tending
to them, finding out how their day was and not having to wait till you get home and have
dinner and all that so, it'll be good. Nick: The human feeling of it is very well-engineered
and it is very smooth. There is nothing that makes you feel the least bit threatened. It's
impressive! I'm totally in love with this whole concept. Steve: Our lives are made up of lots
and lots of little things, and a lot of those little things for most people have to do with
getting from place to place, in order to connect and do things, and be with people, go places
that they need to go and do things. And so there is a big part of my life that's missing,
and there is a big part of my life that a self-driving vehicle would bring back to me.
Chris: This is a first step for us, and it's really exciting to see the progress we've
made. The opportunity for people to just move around and not worry about it, it's going
to be incredibly empowering and incredibly powerful for people.
Steve: I love this!