Which led me to thinking about these mooted driverless cars, like the Google Driverless Car project.
Even beyond the world of autos, the Google driverless car should be a wake-up call about the pace of disruptive technological change that looms for every industry.
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He says the coming technology explosion will drive out factory workers, low-skilled laborers, customer-service operators and even truck and taxi drivers (thank you Google Driverless Car).
The Financial Times is carrying a story that Google too is now working on a smart watch and it is doing so in its Android division rather than at X Labs, where the folks are looking after Google Glass and the driverless car.
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If the driverless car technology works, Google could provide the driverless software to manufacturers, rather than making cars itself.
In sum, the driverless car provides Google with tremendous future business option value, all for less than what GM has spent on Super Bowl commercials over the last decade.
But just as Google came back with Glass and the driverless car, and updated their innovation reputation (and share price), so too Apple will return.
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Google is driving a transformation in automobiles and transportation with its driverless car technology.
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And it will of course be inevitable when cars are driven by computers, something Google and others are quickly making a reality with the development of the driverless car.
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Several car manufacturers and other companies such as Google have recently demonstrated driverless vehicles and three US states - California, Nevada and Florida - even allow self-driving cars on their roads.
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