GM Cruise takes first fares for paid driverless taxi in San Francisco

> Vogt said that “as soon as the end of the year” it may have “hundreds” of vehicles “covering all of San Francisco.”

It's getting harder for the doubters to claim that this is all just a fad and self-driving cars will never become mainstream. I assume the remaining argument is "Well sure, but they'll never work in the rain or snow", so I hope that these self-driving services grow quickly enough that they are able to tackle deployment in rainier cities within a few years.