A fully driverless ride-hailing service is coming to Minneapolis.

Autonomous driving technology company Waymo is laying the early groundwork for its launch in the North Star State. It will begin testing its Jaguar I-PACE and Zeekr RT vehicles on Thursday.

Waymo allows rides to hail its vehicles using the Waymo app, and uses a system of radars and cameras to navigate the streets without a driver.

The company says Waymo robotaxis are so safe that, according to their data, its driverless vehicles are involved in 91 percent fewer crashes compared to human-operated vehicles.

And yet the the company is bracing for the first time when a Waymo does kill somebody — a moment its CEO says society will accept, in exchange for access to its relatively safer driverless cars.

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