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Waymo offers a unique experience: You ride as a passenger behind or next to an empty driver’s seat, and the steering wheel turns as if it’s being operated by a ghost. this new yorker Staff writer Molly Fischer, who has been covering Waymo, told David Remnick that while the statistics are difficult to parse, Waymo appears to be safer than human-driven cars. Waymo fans are reluctant to put themselves in the temporary custody of strangers, but Fischer says it’s this pull that makes Waymo’s glitches the scariest. Now that her report is complete, Remnick wants to know: Will she choose to take a robo-taxi?
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