Welcome to Tech in the Car! I'm really excited today because I'm about to get in a
Waymo driverless car and use it as a taxi service from here outside this Best Buy in Phoenix Arizona
here in the US to go to a bar and then I'm gonna use it to come back because Google says there are
waymo driverless taxi system can be used to do your shopping stop and get a coffee and use it
like a like your own personal car so let's try out and see how it works please do subscribe
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get bigger audience and more access to cards now this is the ultimate intersection of technology
and cars cars that drive themselves cars nowadays have lots of technology which are almost able to
drive themselves the latest cars like the Lucid Air, like the Rivian R1T & of course Tesla can
almost drive themselves but they're not quite there but these cars are truly privates and this
car is going to connect me without a driver team me to a bar and bring me back and we're going to
try it out here on the channel how exciting thing is that so here it is here is the self-driving car
pretty cool so let's uh try it out so the way this works this is the car you can look see all
the sensors around it which allow it to drive itself and you can see at the top here it's
got my initial so I know it's for me pretty cool right here's a lidar and the cameras
and then in the app I press unlock and the doors unlock
start right and let's go so here I am inside Google self-driving car
this car is run by waymo which is a company which came from Google and as you can see
there's nobody in the car I'm just sitting here in the passenger seat so I could sit in the back
seat but I'm sitting here in the passenger seat this is the view from inside the passenger seat
the traffic lights are red so we can't go anywhere this is an EV a Jaguar EV eye-pace you can see the
screen here telling me will be there four minutes so I've decided to do a round trip in this car
so across the junction
and off we go down the road
and we're almost here at our first stop which is Circle K and we're doing a round trip like
I said so I'm getting to see bits of Phoenix in fact this is kind of like a tour I could
just drive this around in a private tour all around the city and you might be thinking how
do I feel do I feel safe in here absolutely I do I mean just I don't feel concerned about
my safety this car knows exactly where it's going kind of funny that the mirror is set
for the driver position obviously when I do have support drivers that come out as I've seen myself
but it's just funny that the mirror is the mirror is set um to the driver so almost at our
first stop on our round trip so this journey is about 11 so the car is pulling over now
foreign there's Circle K pull it over you're here please make sure it's clear before exiting
so I can get out the car now if I want to or I can resume the right so obviously in this particular
situation I don't actually want to get out here so let's press a resume ride button and we'll
continue to our next location which we have so this is interesting there's traffic here
and you can see we're coming across turning right there this is quite a surreal experience but
it's somebody that loves technology and loves cars this is a fantastic fantastic experience
to see now inside the car here there's all kinds of other technology we have well looks
very much like a Microsoft connect sensor which they're using to see inside the car
it says Guardian seeing machines on it I don't know whether that should scare me or not makes
me think of the Terminator and this car is just going along here so obviously way more
support can see me sitting here in the car they can check on the car they can chickens
they might even be watching now so I if you're watching so if you leave your phone in the car
in the back there or even in the front here these cameras can see everything that's going
on they can see who's sitting in the car they obviously know the billing information because
you set it up to pay by card so they know if you're stealing something from the car that's
being left behind you're doing it and you've been in court red handed there's no question
about that so yeah we sit at these traffic lights here we're turning right on a red here
once again nobody sitting in the driver's seat self-driving cars are very much the future because
they take away all of the human risks of driving so you'd have to worry about somebody pulling out
and hitting you because they're tired or fatigued because a car is driving for itself on a trip
like from here to Los Angeles from Phoenix to Los Angeles a trip that takes about five hours up to
maybe six seven hours depending on the traffic and the weather conditions you're going to get fatigue
you're going to get tired and people are going to make mistakes whether it's just you know being
tired and not noticing somebody pulling out it's gonna affect your ability to drive safely and even
if you get to where you're going safely you're still going to be fatigued and maybe you need
to stop for break well in this car you could have a nap you could fall asleep stop when you need a
break if you need to use a bathroom and almost tear drop off that's it so this is interesting
there are people who were about to cross the road and the car stopped itself because it was
worried that they would walk in front of the car so it actually stopped before that happened how
cool is that it really is actually a great example of showing how aware the car is of
what is going on around you I mean like how cool is that this technology is outstanding
it really is to see how this all works and you know it's exciting to see as well that we have
this extra safety and this extra sense of security that can come from this I have no like I said no
qualm sitting here in a car talking to the camera you can see there's two screens actually there's
a screen here with USB so you can plug in and charge your device and then in the front there's
another screen so it's super cool driving yourself without anybody in the car and if
you think about it these cars and the technology in these cars is really revolutionary the fact
that they've been programmed by Google to work without anybody in the car now these roads have
actually been mapped by Google there are specific areas where they work and so that means that it's
only available in certain areas right now certain areas of Phoenix downtown where we are now and
in the south east corner of Phoenix also San Francisco and it's coming to Los Angeles soon
good luck in Los Angeles with the drivers in LA but um yeah I mean look we're going along 40 miles
an hour three minutes to drop off we're in auto mode just super super cool and super futuristic
green light no problems there growing along here and nobody behind the wheel just like a Jaguar is
a wild cat this car is not controlled by anybody except for by itself this is technology in the
car I mean it's the ultimate car this is a 10 minute ride that I've shown you here assuming I
do put the whole raid in we might edit it out but I mean you know how awesome is that look at this
thank you and Nicole's going to pull over here and stop
and the car's going to drive up
and here he goes very impressive
so I had a drive in the way myself driving car but I left my phone in the car so I'm now going
to collect it so I got my phone back that was totally accidental I obviously didn't mean to
leave my phone back in the car but I called up at waymo sport and somebody came out got
my phone and that's fantastic so if you ever lose your phone now you know what happens thank you to
support thank you to the guys from the support team that came and got it so that's how waymo's
driverless car system works so I left my phone behind I contacted waymo through the app they
sent people out to find the car to check for my phone they let me know and then I had a
choice of having delivered to my address here in Phoenix Arizona all going to collect it I had the
car with me my car so I went and collected it so that's how I did it but nice to know that worked
if you're worried about safety once this rollout dated if you're busier with more customers don't
forget there are cameras inside the car so Google knows who's been in the car they've
got the details so if somebody did steal your phone they'd literally be caught red-handed so
it'd be pretty secure actually arguably more secure than any other in-car dash cam system
because the fact is being totally automated they need to know exactly what's going on in terms of
using the app it was really simple I put in my location the car came to me just like an Uber
just like a lift price wise it was actually cheaper than Uber or Lyft but I suspect that
might change as it rolls out and they get busier and busier and busier and it's just
really easy really simple very very interesting experience to see it working to get to use it
and I'm sure we'll see more of driverless cars as time progresses in fact as way more expands across
the US I hope you found this video useful please do give me a like and please do subscribe and if
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