I feel safer in a Waymo than an Uber. Am I wrong? Tell us here. | Opinion Would you ride in a Waymo? Is an AI-powered rideshare service safer than a human-driven one? Take our poll on autonomous vehicles below. One of the first times I rode in a Waymo, we got stuck in an accident. To be clear: It wasn’t our accident. A vehicle collision had taken over a major intersection in the middle of our route. It was one of those crashes that blocked traffic just enough to be an inconvenience, to require a quick-thinking, crafty driver – a human, if you would – to figure out a workaround. Waymo, as you may know, is an autonomous rideshare company. No one is in the driver’s seat. (And don’t even think about touching the steering wheel.) I sat there, helpless, as drivers around us maneuvered into our lane, figuring out long before our artificially intelligent pilot that to make a right-hand turn, you now had to go through a gas station parking lot. Simple! Smart! Not for Waymo. Waymo is coming to a city near you. Would you ride in one? Fortunately, after a series of increasingly embarrassing and jerky start-stops, tiny turns and “rerouting … rerouting …” confusion, the little white car finally figured it out. That was years ago, right around the time these robotaxis became ubiquitous in Phoenix. Since then, I’ve experienced a series of mishaps from the ridiculous (like most American drivers, they struggle with roundabouts) to the dangerous (literally being dropped on the side of the road – a major thoroughfare during rush hour). I’ve witnessed Waymo blockades like the recent one in downtown Nashville. I’ve even encountered an errant pair of underwear on the floor of the backseat. (Before you get any ideas,