I'm being matched right now. I got matched with Sourdough. Sourdough is car number one here today.

This is pretty cool; it looks like it's 7 minutes away. Gonna come get me. And, uh... this'll be it, like, you know, 7 years of working on this. This is the first time I'm gonna ride in a driverless car.

It's coming to me right now with no one in it. It's ghosting around San Francisco. And, uh... that's... that's pretty spectacular.

I'm, uh... I'm thrilled to be doing this. So much hard work has gone into this from the Cruise team, GM team.

So... so much energy, just to take a product from R&D, uh, lots of testing, to reach that level of safety performance we need in a really good ride. And then to layer in all the things we need to go driverless.

A lot of work, and, uh... uh... very humbled to be rider number one tonight. So, hopefully it goes pretty well. Got, uh, 6 more minutes, I'm just gonna wait it out.

This is really cool, it's coming. It's like, inching its way closer.

All right, coming up, 5 minutes. Getting there.

Suspense is killing me, man.

Just imagining what other people are thinking right now. Like, we're in San Francisco, so I don't think people have seen a car going around, pulling up at traffic lights. When you make eye contact and look over, there's no one there.

That's gotta be as crazy for the people on the road tonight, um, as it's gonna be for me, riding in one of these things.

About six blocks left; we're getting closer.

That's it right there.

It says arriving soon.

Is there anyone in that car?

What?! Look at that.

Oh, I gotta wait for the traffic light.

So, I got 4 minutes and 43 seconds to open the door there. Gonna get over there. All right, here we go.

Guys, there is nobody in this car. This is... this is nutty. So, uh... I'm gonna pop on in there. This is cool.

All right.

Used the wrong seatbelt; I'm so nervous right now. Ooh! All right. So, uh... we've arrived. Start driving; pushing that button.

-Hey Kyle.

- Hello. - Can you hear me?

Yeah, I can.

Hey Kyle, this is Colby with peer support. I just wanna let you know that I'm on the line here, and I also have Braden here on the line from the Internet expert.

Cool. Uh... I'm in a driverless car right now. This is insane. I wish you guys could see this, this is... this is just nutty.

This is a pretty smooth ride. I feel s... super comfortable in here, and, uh... like, it just... the car feels really confident.

I'm actually shocked by just how normal this seems. So... I have a little fun thing here.

I'm just talking to the camera for a second, guys. But, uh... I wanted to, of course, I want to bring my little son along on this, this ride, but obviously, that's not where we're at today.

But I brought his favorite monster truck. It's his Little Pickle⏤he calls it Little Pickle. So, he's riding along with me tonight.

Going on ride number one and hopefully, when my son's a little older⏤he's only three now⏤he'll know that his monster truck was on ride number one for the first Cruise driverless cars. So that's... that's a little special moment for me right there.

Ah, nice little nudge for those bikes there. There's a guy at a bus stop here. Does⏤didn't even notice that there's no one in the front seat of this car.

I saw the little Pride AV over there, that was neat. Wow. Wow.

I don't think any other drivers had noticed yet. I guess it's nighttime, and so the headlights are on; you can't really see, you know, into the driver's seat.

But... I'm surprised. I mean... I guess maybe this car is just behaving so normally that it's not drawing any attention to itself.

I cannot wait until we get to have this experience inside the origin. This is... this is really just the beginning, I think, of a pretty transformational change in how people get around and a friction from getting one place to another.

I've always thought that we were trying to build basically the magic carpet for cities. You know, you just get on it and, sort of, whisper where you wanna go, and then you're magically whisked away to that location. And then the way this thing drives, it... it feels like that.

It just feels effortless and smooth. Um... I can't wait 'til more people can experience this.

If you are a Cruiser watching this clip for the first time, I have to say thank you, and also thank you to, you know, your... your families and significant others and all the hard work that, uh, you put into making this happen.

This is, um, nothing short of spectacular. Um, I'm personally very grateful; I know the rest of the Cruise leadership team is.

But, uh, this is something that, you know, 7 or 8 years ago, many, many people said was simply not possible. You know, said we were crazy for trying to embark on something like this.

And, uh, here we are making it happen. That feels pretty good, so thank you.

We're going, uh... it's, like, 5 or 6 more blocks, and I'm hopping out pretty close to The Independent. So, we'll see if we've got some traffic over there.

I see a closed street on the right, AV's picked that up. That's pretty cool.

I'm hoping on this ride, ride number one, we get at least one reaction. I feel like I'm the only witness to something pretty incredible right now. And that's cool, but, you know. Come on, San Francisco, where you at?

Pulling over right now. Like right in front of The Independent, that's pretty cool.

We're here. All right, I'm gonna hop out, then, I guess.

Well, that was it. That was ride number one. That was so smooth, so cool.

It... it just worked. That was, uh... that was amazing. I don't know what to say, and um, it feels good.

And thank you Cruise, you guys made this happen.