Google's Self-Driving Car on Streets of San Francisco

[FastTadpole]

Seems to be scrubbed on SmartPlanet and YouTube even some forums are absent of the article.

Quote:Google's self-driving car on streets of San Francisco

At the FutureMed conference in Mountain View, Calif. , software architect and member of Google's self-driving car initiative, Brad Templeton, discusses the history of autonomous vehicles and where they work today. He also shows a video that demonstrates...

http://oneclick.indiatimes.com/article/07wi7nrffX4hr?q=Google+Inc.

Here's an older article on the topic going into from detail from October 2010.

Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/science/10google.html

Maybe it was a bunk fail of the presentation, maybe it's trying to borrow a play from Apple and do something viral and create a mystique? Whatever the case technology like this is driving us to a technocratic society at large right down the fast lane.

I think I saw this concept in the first Zeitgeist film. Cars that dive themselves and pull themselves over .. for convenience and safety, of course.

Here's an older video of the car in action:

Autonomously-driving Google Car by Robert Scoble
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAiH1LX8guk