Google’s self-driving cars might finally change my life

The Waymo One robotaxi service just removed its San Francisco waitlist—a meaningful step on the road to autonomous-vehicle normalcy.

Not to humblebrag—okay, maybe just a little—but I first rode in a Google self-driving car in 2013, back when hardly anyone had. The opportunity came as I was researching a Time magazine cover story about Larry Page, Google’s then-CEO. During our interview, he sounded typically impatient as he told me that autonomous driving could have been a thing even a decade before if anyone had put their mind to it.