This tweet reminded me that driverless cars can still blow our minds

GIF: Waymo I saw a tweet today that jolted me out of my self-imposed cynical journalist mindset as it relates to self-driving cars.
It was a short video of two guys trying to catch up to a fully driverless Waymo vehicle in Chandler, a town outside Phoenix, Arizona. “There’s no one in this car!” one guy yells exuberantly, before urging his companion to drive “faster. I need to get to the front seat.” They accelerate and, lo and behold, there is indeed no one in this