On a recent windy day in San Francisco, our colleague Megan Babski

watched as a bunch of cars whizzed around the city. Cars without drivers. And no, they weren't

being driven by ghosts. They were self-driving cars called Waymos.

I went to the Golden Gate Bridge, welcome. called Weymos.

I went to the Golden Gate Bridge Welcome Center

and I sat there and I counted how many Weymos

dropped off passengers in an hour.

And it was half a dozen plus. And then I went over to the

Ferry Building which is another famous location in San Francisco and again it was just way mow after way mow.

This was surprising.

Just last year Megan and I had talked about how San Francisco really wasn't a fan of self-driving cars.

And at the time your story was about people being pretty skeptical about it and even like

organizing against these cars being on the roads.

Yes, last year people were protesting the cars.

They were demanding that the cars leave the city. One person told me they didn't want to be the quote

guinea pigs for this unproven technology the cars would stall in the middle of

streets and cost traffic they drove into construction zones.

It was almost like they were a menace to the city last year.

And it's taken a 180.

Over the last year, Weimo, which is owned by Google's parent company

Alphabet, has been on a campaign to win over San Francisco,

from slick marketing to smoother rides.

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