It's a Weird Time for Driverless Cars

The robotaxi is recording me sitting in the backseat, and I am recording it. Someone in the neighboring car is recording us both. It's an unusually hot day in San Francisco, and I am in a self-driving car named Charcuterie, operated by Cruise. Next to me is William Riggs, a professor at the University of San Francisco who studies self-driving cars. The front seats are both empty, and the wheel silently shifts as the car maneuvers itself along a thoroughfare next to Golden Gate Park.