Google Dabbles in Robotics With Self-Driving Cars

According to Google self driving cars are coming to the US in 8 years. they have been testing this vehicles in California's highways with great response from the robotic technology. This type of technology will let people do just about anything they want in their cars but driving them , which sounds kind of funny to me. If i get to have one of this i will surely install a laptop computer to asccsess the internet and maybe watch movies or read something while waiting for my car to get me to the next destination..

While it has been rumored for some time, Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) announced Sunday is has been testing self-driving cars. The company equipped six Toyota Priuses and an Audi TT with technology that enabled a vehicle to drive from Google's Mountain View, Calif., campus to its Santa Monica office. It then moved on to Hollywood Boulevard. In all, Google has sent its auto-cars more than 140,000 miles -- including along the Pacific Coast Highway and across the Golden Gate Bridge.

Google notified local police of its testing program and insisted there was a clean-record driver in each vehicle ready to take over if the robot technology decided to go rogue. That may not always have been the case, though. At least one driver claims to have caught a Google cardriving unmanned and posted a video on YouTube to prove it.