Hey there, I'm David cozy confines of the studio.

We're on the streets of Austin, Texas, where we're trying a little experiment.

Having finished the first two episodes in our series on the rise of autonomous vehicles,

I couldn't help but wonder what it's really like to be a passenger in a car with no driver.

Hey, hey, hey, I think we may have in a Waymo.

It says nice, your pickup is right on time.

Hello, from Waymo. Coming up, you'll get to ride shotgun with my daughter and me. We went downtown

to hail one of these robotaxies and document what it's like to take a ride in one of

these cars of the future. See, recently there was a story in the New York Times that basically

made the case for the inevitability of self-driving cars. According to that article, the data

that's already been gathered suggests that from a public safety standpoint alone, well, it seems undeniable that

we're headed toward a driverless revolution. The only remaining question is how close we are

to that tipping point. After the ride along, we'll hear from Larry Burns. He's a former

automotive executive and author of autonomy, the quest to build the driverless car and how it will reshape our world.

He literally wrote the book on what a driverless future could look like

and spent 10 years consulting for Waymo to help turn these sci-fi-sounding dreams into a reality.

Larry talks about how he got involved with Google's self-driving cars

and how he sees self-driving cars reshaping our society for the better.

But as a reporter, I tend to be a little suspicious of the hype around things that are called the next revolution in transportation.

So before we get into it with Larry, let's hit the streets and see how these robotaxies were,

shall we? All that's coming up.

Welcome back to Business Wars.

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