Where Driverless Cars Brake for Golf Cartsbr Voyage, a driverless car service, is testing its vehicles with older residents in a gated community in San Jose, Calif.br SAN JOSE, Calif. — Molly Jackson, an 82-year-old retired nurse, was sitting in the back seat of a self-drivingbr taxi when the vehicle jerked to a halt at a crossing as its computer vision spotted an approaching golf cart.br They say we don’t have to, but I do.”br Voyage is starting to expand its driverless taxi service beyond a small test in thebr Villages, a gated community of about 4,000 residents where the average age is 76.br The company had a major selling point: Udacity’s chairman, Sebastian Thrun, the founder of Google’s driverless car projectbr and a pioneer in autonomous vehicle research, was joining Voyage as chairman.br Waymo, the driverless car unit of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, startedbr a trial ride-hailing program in Phoenix this year with several hundred cars.br As a longtime resident of the Villages Golf and Country Club, a retirement communitybr in San Jose, Calif., she knew all about aggressive golf cart drivers.br How an online education start-up ended up operating an autonomous taxi service in a retirement community is an “only in Silicon Valley” story.