{"id":446144,"date":"2026-09-24T10:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T10:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/446144\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T10:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T10:46:17","slug":"poll-would-you-feel-comfortable-riding-in-a-driverless-car-on-the-freeway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/446144\/","title":{"rendered":"POLL: Would you feel comfortable riding in a driverless car on the freeway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Waymo has begun offering <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/waymo-begins-offering-driverless-freeway-rides-in-austin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fully autonomous freeway rides<\/a> in Austin. Riders booking through the Uber app may now be routed onto freeways on select trips, following months of testing.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say freeways can be simpler for autonomous vehicles in some ways, though higher speeds bring added risks.<\/p>\n<p>With the expansion now underway, CBS Austin wants to know: Would you feel comfortable riding in a driverless car on the freeway?<\/p>\n<p>Cast your vote and see the results live on CBS Austin This Morning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/waymo-begins-offering-driverless-freeway-rides-in-austin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | Waymo begins offering driverless freeway rides in Austin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Waymo has begun offering fully autonomous freeway rides in Austin. Riders booking through the Uber&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-446144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}