Are Self-Driving Cars Safe? We Got Into a Waymo to Find Out

About this episode

Clare Duffy explores the safety and technology of self-driving cars during a Waymo ride in San Francisco.

Self-driving cars have hit the road. What does that mean for the future of driving? On a Waymo ride through San Francisco, Clare asks Waymo executive Nicole Gavel about the technology behind robotaxis and how Waymo works to keep people safe. Terms of Service is a CNN Podcasts and Goat Rodeo production. At Goat Rodeo, the lead producer is Rebecca Seidel, and the executive producers are Megan Nadolski and Ian Enright. At CNN, Dan Bloom is our Senior Producer and Dan Dzula is our Technical Director. Production support from Sofía Sanchez. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Clare Duffy

Guest: Nicole Gavel

Topics covered

• self-driving cars
• Waymo
• robotaxis
• safety
• technology
• future of driving

Keywords

• self-driving cars
• Waymo
• robotaxis
• safety
• technology
• San Francisco

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Waymo, CNN Podcasts, Goat Rodeo

Places: San Francisco

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