When I was a kid we all thought by now we’d be seeing flying cars and moving sidewalks. Like the Jetsons. Nothing has really happened to change our daily commutes, even the Segway – which was supposed to revolutionize transportation, largely did nothing.
If Google has anything to say about it, the near future (10-15 yrs) may include autonomous (driverless) cars. Does giving up the freedom of driving sound scary? Maybe. But one survey found that 90% of drivers would use a self-driving car is their insurance went down 80%.
Google has already driven a half million self-driven miles without a single accident.
Why would Google invest in this technology? The funny and informative folk at thecarstarter.com answer, “So you can do more googly things in your car during the commute, of course.”
