Google made a stunning revelation this morning: the existence of
a secret self-driving car project. Even more amazing: it has been in testing for months, on actual roads across California, and things seem to be running smoothly. Fans of�
Total Recall,
Minority Report, and
Knight Rider are hyperventilating at the prospects. And while the technology is likely still a long way from being widely implemented (
The New York Times piece on it suggests eight years), there is one big question: why? Google's answer seems to be a "betterment of society" one. "
We?ve always been optimistic about technology?s ability to advance society, which is why we have pushed so hard to improve the capabilities of self-driving cars beyond where they are today," Google engineer�Sebastian Thrun, who�spearheaded�the project (and also runs Stanford's AI Labs, and co-invented Street View),
writes today.
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