I find Waymo’s driverless taxis fascinating, as I expressed back in July, so I quite enjoyed Wired decision to stalk a Waymo:

Our idea: We’ll pile a few of us into an old-fashioned, human-piloted hired car, then follow a single Waymo robotaxi wherever it goes for a whole workday. We’ll study its movements, its relationship to life on the streets, its whole self-driving gestalt. We’ll interview as many of its passengers as will speak to us, and observe it through the eyes of the kind of human driver it’s designed to replace. We’ll chase it for no fewer than six hours, or until we get into a fiery crash. Whichever comes first.

They had an interesting journey, though now I’m wondering just how much autonomous driving is currently just “rebalancing”, and how necessary that really is.