Google Now Testing Self-Driving Cars In Washington

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If you live in Kirkland, Washington you should keep your eyes out for Google's self-driving cars starting next month. Google must want to see how those things handle in the rain.

The company's Google unit has conducted autonomous vehicle testing for six years in Mountain View, California, where it is based, and it expanded testing to Austin, Texas last summer. Google said in a statement that one reason for the new site in the northwest United States is to gain experience in "different driving environments, traffic patterns, and road conditions."
 
These will be as bad or worse than getting stuck behind a slow moving bus or truck. It sounds like a good idea until people realize exactly how much of a fail it really is. People will come to hate these as much as google glasses. Self driving cars will set Artificial Intelligence back decades...
 
thejokker said:
These will be as bad or worse than getting stuck behind a slow moving bus or truck. It sounds like a good idea until people realize exactly how much of a fail it really is. People will come to hate these as much as google glasses. Self driving cars will set Artificial Intelligence back decades...
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People always complain about new technology, a century ago it was the horse and buggy crowd, it's too lucrative a market for it to fail, a massive boost to the GDP in the long run.

The question is more about which company will dominate with their implementation in the end. My guess would be Google or Tesla but who knows.
 
Inching closer, dragging people kicking and screaming into the future:

http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/02...the-vehicles-legal-driver-us-government-says/

The US government has cleared the way for Google to create a self-driving car that doesn't also have a human driver inside the vehicle that can take over if necessary. In this setup, the autonomous driving software itself would be the vehicle's legal "driver"; none of the human passengers would require a driving licence.
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