With little fanfare on Saturday night, Google revealed that it has been furtively testing and refining driverless cars on the streets of San Francisco and Los Angeles, clocking up an incredible 225,000 test-driving kilometres as they did so. Google says it has quietly gotten into the automotive automation research business by hiring some of the robotics engineers who won (or at least, performed well) in the Pentagon's 2004, 2005 and 2007 self-driving car competitions - the so-called DARPA Grand Challenges. DARPA wants Humvees and trucks to drive themselves so supplies can be delivered without risking the lives of troops.
Between this and Android...I think there is a pretty good chance that in the future, I build a time machine, go back in time under the pseudonym "Lawrence 'Larry' Page" and found Google. How else could this company be so incredibly in line with every idea and value I hold dear?
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