 This is the future. This is absolutely the future. We are living it here on a retired airstrip outside San Francisco, California with two geese taking in the scenery right outside, watching a silver bullet drive by. We're at Formal Naval Air Station Alameda and the reason we're here today is because we're going to be taking a look at the Mercedes F015 Luxury in Motion. Now this is the vehicle that debuted at CES a few weeks ago to a huge reaction for a couple of reasons. One, it's self-driving. Two, it really does look like it's from the future. It looks like nothing that we've ever seen before. We're actually going to have a chance to drive it today and hopefully we don't die. It's not a street legal car. That's why we're out here in this place. So let's hope everything goes according to plan. Almost everything about the F015 is designed with autonomous driving in mind. From the outside you can barely tell there are windows for passengers to see out of it all. They're there but a metallic coating makes it look like uninterrupted flowing metal from top to bottom. A prominent hump on the roof contains high precision GPS equipment, which isn't something you see on an everyday car. Oh, and there are lasers in the front and it talks to pedestrians nearby. You know, totally normal stuff. We're about to get in. If I die from my family, I died doing what I love, I guess. So I'm sitting in the driver's seat of the F015 here and you'll notice that I'm facing backwards. I'm not facing toward the windshield, which is one of the cooler features of a self-driving car. You don't have to be looking forward. And we're surrounded by LCDs and these are actually touch screens. You can do a variety of different things. You can change the speed that you're going. You can control music. You can call people. And you can change the background here to whatever you want. You can have it be a 360 degree photo. You can rotate that photo around. So there's a retractable table in here that can serve all four passengers and they can play games so that as you're driving you're just sort of like having fun. And the car's rolling right now, by the way. We didn't have anything to do with that. The car just started moving on its own. The steering wheel is literally behind me, behind my seat. Nobody is touching it. We're just rolling. And you'll see the images on the displays in the doors are kind of moving along. But they have nothing to do with the scenery outside. It's just whatever you want it to be. You can experience some other environment. It's very, very sci-fi in every sense of the word. The legislation doesn't exist to actually allow any of this right now, but Mercedes is looking at this as a vision of 2030. They're calling it a research vehicle, not a concept vehicle. A lot of the stuff that's happening in here they're testing in the hopes that eventually the legislation will catch up and by the time 2030 rolls around maybe we'll see cars that actually look like this on the road. I don't know whether I'd personally own something like this, but I think it's too soon to say maybe it's a generational leap. Maybe our kids will be driving vehicles that look and work like this. Maybe they're not for us, but the fact that they're actually working, they're not just concepts, they're working, they're driving on deserted airstrips is pretty amazing.
 This is the future.
 This is absolutely the future.
 We are living it here on a retired airstrip outside San Francisco, California with two
 geese taking in the scenery right outside, watching a silver bullet drive by.
 We're at Formal Naval Air Station Alameda and the reason we're here today is because
 we're going to be taking a look at the Mercedes F015 Luxury in Motion.
 Now this is the vehicle that debuted at CES a few weeks ago to a huge reaction for a couple
 of reasons.
 One, it's self-driving.
 Two, it really does look like it's from the future.
 It looks like nothing that we've ever seen before.
 We're actually going to have a chance to drive it today and hopefully we don't die.
 It's not a street legal car.
 That's why we're out here in this place.
 So let's hope everything goes according to plan.
 Almost everything about the F015 is designed with autonomous driving in mind.
 From the outside you can barely tell there are windows for passengers to see out of it
 all.
 They're there but a metallic coating makes it look like uninterrupted flowing metal from
 top to bottom.
 A prominent hump on the roof contains high precision GPS equipment, which isn't something
 you see on an everyday car.
 Oh, and there are lasers in the front and it talks to pedestrians nearby.
 You know, totally normal stuff.
 We're about to get in.
 If I die from my family, I died doing what I love, I guess.
 So I'm sitting in the driver's seat of the F015 here and you'll notice that I'm facing
 backwards.
 I'm not facing toward the windshield, which is one of the cooler features of a self-driving
 car.
 You don't have to be looking forward.
 And we're surrounded by LCDs and these are actually touch screens.
 You can do a variety of different things.
 You can change the speed that you're going.
 You can control music.
 You can call people.
 And you can change the background here to whatever you want.
 You can have it be a 360 degree photo.
 You can rotate that photo around.
 So there's a retractable table in here that can serve all four passengers and they can
 play games so that as you're driving you're just sort of like having fun.
 And the car's rolling right now, by the way.
 We didn't have anything to do with that.
 The car just started moving on its own.
 The steering wheel is literally behind me, behind my seat.
 Nobody is touching it.
 We're just rolling.
 And you'll see the images on the displays in the doors are kind of moving along.
 But they have nothing to do with the scenery outside.
 It's just whatever you want it to be.
 You can experience some other environment.
 It's very, very sci-fi in every sense of the word.
 The legislation doesn't exist to actually allow any of this right now, but Mercedes
 is looking at this as a vision of 2030.
 They're calling it a research vehicle, not a concept vehicle.
 A lot of the stuff that's happening in here they're testing in the hopes that eventually
 the legislation will catch up and by the time 2030 rolls around maybe we'll see cars that
 actually look like this on the road.
 I don't know whether I'd personally own something like this, but I think it's too soon to say
 maybe it's a generational leap.
 Maybe our kids will be driving vehicles that look and work like this.
 Maybe they're not for us, but the fact that they're actually working, they're not just
 concepts, they're working, they're driving on deserted airstrips is pretty amazing.