Sebastian Thrun who lead the winning team at Stanford now works for Google, and is heading up the Google self driving car work.
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The self-driving car will making the whole driving experience much more pleasurable, predicted Brad Templeton, the former chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation who has worked extensively with Google on their self-driving car.
For example, the prediction that we would have self-driving cars was regarded as wrong even though Google self-driving cars have logged over 200, 000 miles in traffic from Mountain View to Santa Monica and back in California.
"Listen, I was driving to work the other day and I saw the self-driving Google car buzz by me driving much better than I think I was, " Fertik said.
"We want to improve the quality of driving, " says Anthony Levandowski, the project manager for Google's self-driving-car effort.
Second, Thomas seems to be assuming that most people will buy self-driving cars outright.
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Overall, the NHTSA guidelines indicate that federal regulators are eager to promote research on self-driving cars.
For now, the agency says states shouldn't allow operation of self-driving vehicles except for testing purposes.
Google lawyers recently helped draft the first state law dealing with self-driving cars, in Nevada.
It allows self-driving cars after they've been tested for 10, 000 miles on private roads.
Google: Project Glass, self-driving cars, pieces of software with charming voices that serve as personal attendants.
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My car company isn't into self-driving cars, but others are: Ford, BMW, Audi.
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Self-driving cars would be the great liberator of people for whom driving is a boring necessity.
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If you think a little bigger, you may think of flying cars or self-driving cars.
Self-driving cars, robotic surgery and robotic exoskeletons for soldiers are indeed serious stuff.
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First and foremost, he said, the self-driving cars would be safer than human-driven cars.
That last bit goes quite a bit further than today's experiments with self-driving cars, though.
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One thing the tech and auto industries can agree on is that self-driving cars are doable.
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The lab has given rise to Google's self-driving car initiative and did the early work on its augmented spectacles.
Nevada has made Audi the first automaker allowed to operate self-driving vehicles on public roads.
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Then there's the impact of the self-driving car, which has the potential to radically reduce car crashes.
But the economics will change dramatically if Google or a car company decides to begin mass-producing self-driving cars.
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Several states, including California, Florida and Nevada, have passed laws allowing operation of self-driving cars on public streets.
Even grizzled Silicon Valley entrepreneurs like Reputation.com CEO Michael Fertik confessed to being wowed by the self-driving car.
Audi and BMW have shown self-driving concept cars, and Audi had a TT drive itself up Pikes Peak.
Google's self-driving cars, which use laser sensors and mapping technology, are examples of Level 3 cars, Mr. Friedman said.
The agency document emphasizes the potential for self-driving cars to reduce highway accidents and deaths, and reduce fossil-fuel emissions.
The development of self-driving car technology is being spurred on by several forces.
In some instances, the NHTSA guidelines urge states not to regulate self-driving cars.
Page said he continues to favor projects that seem impossible, like self-driving cars.
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