Reel: Ride with Waymo — Two Blind Riders, Zero Human Drivers

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VOICEOVER: Sight Tech Global presents Taking Waymo Rides. Two blind riders, zero human drivers. Two friends sit next to each other at a cafe table wearing 49ers jerseys. Our game’s about to start. My friend can’t pick us up though. How are we gonna get there? I gotta wait if they can’t come for us. It’s got an app called Waymo. What’s Waymo? It’s a robot, you know, it kind of picks you up, takes you, yeah. It’s a car. It’s a car. Are you saying it’s a self-driving car? Yeah, yeah, for real. Oh, okay. It’s pretty easy to use. You wanna try? I set it up. I hope you don’t mind a robot driving you around, so let’s see. We’ll see about that. Roberto uses his phone to book a Waymo. Ashley’s Cafe, 4454 California Street. Your trip heading. Okay. Your ride is booked. See you soon. See you in eight minutes. Heading. Roberto and Chris wait on a street corner for the car to arrive. A Waymo car turns around the corner. The car is arriving. Find my clock. Button. Honk horn. That’s me honking it. That’s you honning it? Yeah. Roberto and Chris are walking on the street. Roberto and Chris cross the street to where the Waymo car is. Oh, damn. I got it. Oh, okay. It’s this one. The top of a Waymo car has a big spinning LiDAR sensor. Roberto and Chris get on the Waymo car. Start ride. Slide to start driving. Headed to 600. Headed to 600. 30. 20. All right. Here we go. Hey, great experiences. Hey, let’s do it. Alright. The Waymo car drives away. Roberto adjusts his seatbelt. We care about your safety. The rider support makes all the cars. Is that you? Come on, Roberto. Come on. I thought I clipped it on, but I guess I didn’t. All right. So I’m going to use my Google Assistant right now to play some music on Spotify. Okay. So yeah, you can connect it like this. Here we go. Play Backstreet Boys. ‘I Want It That Way’ on Waymo. Let’s see if it works. ‘I Want It That Way’ from Spotify. All right. You’re down for this? Are you ready? Are you ready for the karaoke? Yeah, let’s do it. Let’s see if it works. You know what surprises me is that the Google Assistant knows we’re in the car. Oh, yeah. Like I didn’t even have to tell it. Yeah. Yeah. ‘I Wanted That Way’. Tell me why. Ain’t nothing but a heartache. Tell me why. Ain’t nothing but a mistake. Tell me why. I never want to hear you say. ‘I Wanted That Way’. By the way, what’s the ETA? The ETA? Let me see. Let’s see. I can check on the app. So. So, our ETA. Seven minutes to travel. Seven more minutes. All right. Sounds good. This car, it’s going to be telling us where we’re going. There’s auto. Audio cues? This ride is Waymo fun, dude. Yeah, yeah. It is, huh? I don’t know what that was. We’re seating on 7th Avenue. Oh, there’s the audio cue. Okay. It for real feels like someone’s driving us, huh? Yeah. Yeah. There ain’t no one driving us. The video shows an empty driver’s seat. Would you take this again? Definitely going to take this Waymo often. Yeah. Definitely going to bring my guide dog next time. All right. We’re about to get to this party. You ready? Let’s do it. Yeah. You ready for the game? Yeah, I’m ready. 49ers, here we go. Bang, bang, Niner gang. All right. That’s a noise to get off, please make sure it’s clear before exiting. Alright, okay. Roberto and Chris get off the Waymo car. You know what’s cool is that the car parked just far enough from the other car so you can open the door safely. Okay, okay. You know what I like about it? Yeah. It’s telling us how many feet ahead it is. So it’s telling you when you’re getting closer or farther, right? Yeah. It’s going down. 210 feet to your left, 210 feet ahead. Roberto and Chris are back sitting at a cafe table. That was a good time. I just like how you can bring a guide dog in there and play your own music. Playing music in the car. Audio too. I mean, yeah, me too. You know, finding our way here was pretty easy after getting off the car. But again, what a ride that it is with Waymo. I want it that way…..