> we’re going to instantly leap from that to fully autonomous driving
If you had lived and owned a car in Mountain View, you would have been used to driving alongside fully autonomous cars for years now, and the move wouldn't seem nearly as instant.
It's been about a month. I guess I just missed them.
As a side-note, I love that I can't tell if a comment is true or sarcastic-faux-science-fiction, and it ends up being true. We live in a really cool time.
It might just be where I walk vs where you walk - I usually see them on Shoreline and between Shoreline and Castro, sometimes on El Camino in that span. A few weeks ago I saw one of the slow pod cars holding up a bunch of traffic in he right lane on El Camino because its top speed is too low for the flow there. :-D
I haven't seen any of the pod cars yet but I've seen a couple of the Lexus SUV's. I've even seen a few in San Francisco but they're not Google's. I seem to end up biking next to the same one every week or so in Dogpatch. It's a dark red Nissan Leaf without any labeling. I wonder what company owns it.
If you had lived and owned a car in Mountain View, you would have been used to driving alongside fully autonomous cars for years now, and the move wouldn't seem nearly as instant.