Why does it feel so weird to ride in a driverless car?

Waymo driverless cars are now ubiquitous in San Francisco. Chloe Veltman/NPR

Chloe Veltman/NPR

Dan Avedikian’s recent ride across San Francisco in a driverless car was a mostly uneventful experience.

But at one point, the robotaxi did something the 37-year-old music educator wasn’t expecting: The car signaled as if it were going to turn left at an intersection, but then didn’t.

Avedikian said human drivers often do things like this — make choices that don’t seem to make sense right away.

“Like, big whoop,” he said. “It’s the kind of thing I do all the time.”

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