Chris Urmson

It sounded like fun.

The strobe light is on.

The command from the tower is to move.

Ladies and gentlemen, Sandstorm.

Autonomous vehicle traversing the desert with the goal of keeping our young military personnel out of harm's way.

Booyah!

Anthony Lewandowski.

Good effort.

And then every vehicle after it fails miserably.

It was weaving around like a drunken sailor.

And we realized that the scale of the runway was such that you didn't notice the one or two foot kind of oscillation it had in lateral control.

And you put it on Central Expressway and suddenly, you know, yep, turns out actually that's a problem.

And I think we had a big party up at Sebastian's house in Los Altos Hills.

So, you know, it was pretty spectacular, right?

It was kind of, okay, and now what?

My universal experience has been, and you can tell me if this was your experience, the first couple of minutes in the vehicle, it's, huh, that's crazy.

There's nobody behind the wheel.

Yeah.

Swimming with sharks.

And then a few minutes in, it's like, okay, you know, is this just going to drive?