PJ Vogt

So I had kind of limited mobility and I was visiting a friend in San Francisco and I took a Waymo and it was such an experience of the future that immediately becomes normal.

First, the idea that I would press a button on my phone, a

Car would come out of nowhere, driven by nobody.

I would get in, watch the steering wheel turn itself.

I was trying to describe to somebody recently, I was like, the first time it feels like the first time you're in an airplane, and by the third time it feels like you're in an elevator.

It was a moment where I thought, oh, a lot's about to change.

And it was confusing to me that people were not talking about that more.

What should we expect to hear in the series?

There are two parts.

The first is really about the car, and then the second is really about the driver.

Tell me who you think are some of the most compelling characters and why.

So in the first part, there's this guy, Sebastian Thrun.

He's so good.

He's this German-born roboticist AI expert who lost a friend as a teenager to a car accident.

And he really thinks that his invention is not just going to

make money for a tech company or be more convenient.

He wants to reshape the modern world as it exists.

And it's just the story of him and his team beginning to figure that out and having ideas that sounded crazy 20 years ago and with every year towards the present have sounded more sane and at least plausible.

And then in the second part, I find the Boston politicians to be very vivid talkers, very opinionated people.

Vivid is a very polite word.