It’s not hyperbole to say that the computing technology pioneered Bill Gates has radically changed the world and the way we interact with it. But even Gates is knocked sideways after seeing an autonomous vehicle pick its way through London traffic.

The Microsoft founder got the chance to ride shotgun in a Jaguar I-Pace fitted with self-driving technology developed by British company Wayve, and the YouTube video of the ride shows the Jag navigating the usual chaos of London’s busy and often narrow streets. There are cyclists to avoid, other cars doing u-turns in the road and all manner of other obstructions that you couldn’t plan for.

But rather than using map-based instructions, the Wayve-equipped car works its way through traffic by learning as its drives, meaning it can go literally anywhere and react to whatever jumps in front of it. And it’s clear that Gates is impressed by how it handles surprise situations like a car suddenly driving towards it on the wrong side of the road.

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Writing about the experience on his blog Gatesnotes, brainy Bill says he believes that autonomous vehicles, or AVs as he calls them, “will change transportation as dramatically as the PC changed office work.” Gates is confident that most of the hardware required to automate the world’s vehicle fleet has already been developed, and that most of the remaining work revolves around tuning the software. And there is definitely some work left to do: Gates admits that the “safety driver” alongside him in the driver’s seat of the Jaguar EV for the London trip had to assume control on several occasions.

Although he was trialling the technology in a regular car, Gates reckons passenger vehicles will be the last to become fully automated and will will only adopt the tech en-masse after long-haul trucks, delivery vehicles and taxis.

Gates is well known as a car guy, has owned a Porsche 959 and Taycan and claims he used to love driving fast when he was young and still enjoys his commute to work. But he says he’s also “excited for the day I get to hand over control of my car to a machine,” and claims he can’t wait to see what “new possibilities” autonomous technology unlocks.