Google has been working in secret - but in plain view - on vehicles that can drive themselves, using artificial-intelligence software that can sense anything near the car and mimic the decisions made by a human driver. At this moment the cars have already logged over 140,000 miles.
The project is the brainchild of Sebastian Thrun, the 43-year-old director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, a Google engineer and the co-inventor of the Street View mapping service.
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Yawn. Several companies and universities have been working on similar systems for years. Even though they have mostly been quite open about it, it hasn't made many headlines. Google do it and suddenly it's big news. Would that have anything to do with the fact that Google spend a small fortune on PR?
Sounds good until the computer crashes, or even hangs up for a few seconds.
Anonymous... does your car computer crash? What makes you think a real time system would run windows... thats just retarded.
Oh yeah, and of course Windows is the only OS that ever crashes. Boooring.
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