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The first car woke Jennifer King up at 2 a.m. with a loud, high-pitched whine. "It sounded like a hovercraft," she says, and that wasn't the really scary thing. King lives on a cul-de-sac on the edge of the Presidio, a 3,000-acre park in San Francisco with virtually no through traffic. Outside, she saw a white Jaguar SUV pulling out of her driveway. It had what appeared to be a giant fan on the roof - a laser sensor - and bore the logo of Waymo, Google's driverless car subsidiary.

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