" You're scared the first minute. You're interested the next five. You are bored the rest of the time."

State Sen. Jeff Brandes has ridden in self-driving cars three or four times, most recently at up to 120 mph on a test track in Sonoma County, Calif.

"You're scared the first minute. You're interested the next five. You are bored the rest of the time," Brandes said.

Brandes, R-St. Petersburg, was instrumental in passing a law in the state Legislature in 2012 to encourage the testing and study of so-called automated or autonomous vehicles in Florida.

Read more at the Orlando Sentinel.