Yo!

Technology.

What is it all about?

Like I said, when I'm on my driverless rides, the first two minutes, it's amazing.

You look, you see no one in the front seat.

But ultimately, this just boils down to a transportation product, right?

It's got to get you from point A to point B, and it's got to do so better than the equivalents that are out there today.

Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley.

Thank you for tuning in.

I am your host, Danny Forth, and the West Coast correspondent for the Sunday Times. And this week, we are talking self-driving cars. So, in case you didn't know, monumental

things are afoot when it comes to self-driving cars, robotaxies, ghost taxis, whatever

you want to call it. So in San Francisco Cruise Cruz, which is the self-driving arm of GM.

Cruise was a startup that GM acquired some years back.

And Cruz recently applied in the last couple weeks to become the first company in America

to start offering fully autonomous taxi services.

So that is no safety driver, just the car.

And that would be to cart around actual humans paying passengers. So this is a very big deal. Now, obviously, they have not

been approved yet, but they have applied. So they feel like the technology is finally,

finally ready. And of course, this builds on a more recent approval back in September, where the DMV Department

of Motor Vehicles gave two companies, Cruz and Waymo approval to start autonomous delivery operations,

but these are pretty limited only at certain times of the day or in Waymo's case with a safety

driver, et cetera, and of course, no humans, no paying passengers.

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