Waymo's Driverless Cars Have Quietly Joined Nashville's Traffic

Self-driving vehicles from Waymo are now a regular presence on Nashville streets, common enough that local reporters have started talking about them out loud. Banner journalists Steven Hale and Sarah Grace Taylor gave the cars airtime on a recent podcast, treating their steady presence around town as worth a segment of its own. For a city used to measuring its growth in new restaurants and studios, a fleet of cars that drive themselves is its own kind of marker. Nashville, it seems, has added autonomous vehicles to the list of things that now simply belong here.

With reporting from Nashville Banner.