Wait, who’s driving that car? Google is
Google brings today’s entry from the how-cool-is-that file. Google has been testing a small fleet of driverless cars on California roads lately with resounding success.
That's right, cars with robots at the controls. George Jetson would be proud.
The six Toyota Priuses and an Audi TT were outfitted with cameras, computers, sensors and other gear to enable the automated driving. The stories said the cars navigated more than 1,000 combined miles with no human intervention and more than 140,000 combined miles with just a little human help.
The only accident? One car was rear-ended by a human-driven car. No word on whether any citations were issued.
Not only is Google the dominant player on the information superhighway, it's aiming to stay in control on the real highways.
For more on the driverless Google cars, see:
Story from the New York Times:
Google cars drive themselves, in traffic
http//nyt.ms/gcars
Story from Cnet:
Robot cars invade California, on orders from Google
http://bit.ly/cngcars
