https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/29/my-ride-in-gms-self-driving-car-offers-a-taste-of-whats-possible.html

As self-driving vehicles go, the Chevy Bolt I rode in Tuesday morning in San Francisco shows General Motors is ready for the challenge of operating self-driving vehicles on complex and often tricky city streets. The question now is when will GM take the next step and go from testing self-driving cars to running a fleet of autonomous-drive cars offering rides to the public. "We want to demonstrate to people how much progress is made to over our overall mission, which is to deploy this technology at very large scale and the most complex environments with the right safety," said Dan Ammann, president of General Motors. While many in the auto industry this week will be focused on the Los Angeles Auto Show, GM is focused 380 miles to the north giving reporters and analysts a look at its work developing and deploying self-driving cars.On Thursday, CEO Mary Barra will outline the automaker's strategy for autonomous vehicles. Before that GM gave a small number of reporters, including me, short rides on pre-determined routes in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood. So what was it like? More importantly, how does it compare to other autonomous-drive vehicles like Waymo's self-driving minivan I rode in last month. The the self-driving Chevy Bolt took me on a 2.2-mile long ride through side streets where we encountered construction trucks, bicyclists, pedestrians and other vehicles, some of which cut us off or turned in front of us without slowing down or signaling a turn.