Your chromedriver is starting just fine:
“Starting ChromeDriver 2.31.488763
(092de99f48a300323ecf8c2a4e2e7cab51de5ba8) on port 43967”
The problem is the browser itself is not responding. So I have two ideas:
1) Your browser is not installed in the default location; If this is the case, add this to your code:
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.setBinary("/path/to/other/chrome/binary");
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
capabilities.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, chromeOptions);
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(capabilities);
2) Your browser is latest version, but your chromedriver isn’t – current is 2.33