This segment originally aired Jan. 27, 2017, on VICE News Tonight on HBO.

You can’t walk down the street in San Francisco without seeing a car with a spinning tassel of lasers speed by. Ford, Toyota, Nissan, Honda, all have self-driving projects. Uber has autonomous cars already picking up riders in Phoenix.

And now there’s a new entry in the self-driving arms race, rolled out at the end of January. It’s a collaboration between Chrysler and Waymo, a spinoff of Google X, the search giant’s highly secretive special projects lab.

The project opened its offices to VICE News for a rare glimpse of what it’s building and shared never-before-seen footage of early prototypes.