"Here it comes," I call out to photographer William Walker. "Yeah, there's no one driving." As Walker's shutter rapid-fires and the upfitted Chrysler Pacifica plug-in hybrid electric vehicle pulls up to where I'm standing on a residential cul-de-sac in Chandler, Arizona, I realize my mistake. There's no one in the driver's seat, but someone-something-is definitely driving. We've traveled from Los Angeles to the Phoenix suburbs to experience the type of vehicle that might just put us automotive journalists out of business: the Waymo One. You might remember it as the Google Self-Driving Car Project we first experienced in 2015, but it's now an independent company wholly owned by Google's parent company, Alphabet. We're here to explore two fundamental questions: How well does it work, and how the hell do we review cars we can't drive?
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