The future is here. Driverless cars have come to Phoenix, Los Angeles and San Francisco by the name of Waymo taxis, which has a partnership with Uber.
The cars drive 24 hours per day and average 150,000 trips each week.
Could they come to Salt Lake City soon?
Salt Lake City's grid system is ideal for testing the technology — it's the winter snow that creates a challenging environment to bring the driverless cars to Utah.
But Waymo is making progress on that front, announcing a winter weather testing initiative coming to California, Michigan and upstate New York.
The self-driving cars are coming to Austin and Atlanta this year and are set to arrive in Miami in 2026.
What's it like riding in a driverless car?
"It’s eerie at first, but you soon forget that you are riding in an all-electric Jaguar vehicle without a driver," Gitanjali Poonia writes. "And although there’s no need for a steering wheel, you see one swirling left and right during your car ride."
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