Steve Mahan

**Airicist** · 14th December 2016, 01:19

Google Self-Driving Car Test: Steve Mahan
Starting January 2012
In early 2012, I became the Google Self-Driving Car User #0000000001. Film of my excursion behind the wheel of the autonomous car was released on YouTube in March 2012. Follow the link and watch a blind man running errands behind the wheel in Morgan Hill, CA! Amazing!

**Airicist** · 14th December 2016, 01:20

Self-Driving Car Test: Steve Mahan

Published on Mar 28, 2012

We announced our self-driving car project in 2010 to make driving safer, more enjoyable, and more efficient. Having safely completed over 200,000 miles of computer-led driving, we wanted to share one of our favorite moments. Here's Steve, who joined us for a special drive on a carefully programmed route to experience being behind the wheel in a whole new way. We organized this test as a technical experiment, but we think it's also a promising look at what autonomous technology may one day deliver if rigorous technology and safety standards can be met.

**Airicist** · 14th December 2016, 01:20

Highlights: World’s first fully self-driving ride

Uploaded on Dec 12, 2016

Waymo stands for a new way forward in mobility. We started as the Google self-driving car project in 2009 and we are now an independent self-driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things move around. In 2015, we invited Steve Mahan, former CEO of the Santa Clara Valley Blind Center, for a special ride. Steve had ridden in our cars in the past—first accompanied by a test driver in 2012 and then on a closed course in 2013. This time was different. Steve experienced the world’s first fully self-driving ride on public roads, navigating through everyday traffic with no steering wheel, no pedals, and no test driver.

"On the road with self-driving car user number one"

by Nathaniel Fairfield
December 13, 2016

**Airicist** · 14th December 2016, 01:20

Meet the blind man who convinced Google its self-driving car is finally ready

Published on Dec 13, 2016

Google is getting serious about self-driving cars. So serious that it put a legally blind man in one that drove him around safely on his own. The successful trip means that the tech giant can now launch its own self-driving car company, which it's calling Waymo.