Google had announced in October, 2010 that it’s been building robotic cars that have been driving themselves around California.. — down curvy Lombard Street in San Francisco, across the Golden Gate Bridge, along the Pacific Coast Highway, around Lake Tahoe and from Google’s Mountain View headquarters to Santa Monica (a 350-mile trip).
With Google Software Engineer Sebastian Thrun as the driving force behind the effort to develop autonomous cars, commuters can look forward to this science fiction dream soon becoming a reality. Thrun is working with a team of engineers who gained successful results in the Pentagon’s DARPA Challenges, a competition which sought to “leverage American ingenuity to accelerate the development of autonomous vehicle technologies that can be applied to military requirements,”
"Our automated cars use video cameras, radar sensors and a laser range finder to “see” other traffic, as well as detailed maps (which we collect using manually driven vehicles) to navigate the road ahead. This is all made possible by Google’s data centers, which can process the enormous amounts of information gathered by our cars when mapping their terrain."
"Our automated cars, manned by trained operators, just drove from our Mountain View campus to our Santa Monica office and on to Hollywood Boulevard. They’ve driven down Lombard Street, crossed the Golden Gate bridge, navigated the Pacific Coast Highway, and even made it all the way around Lake Tahoe."
Google hasn’t really shown us much of what these cars are capable of on the road. Now, courtesy of Danny Sullivan at SearchEngineLand, we can see the system flexing its muscles, from both outside and inside a demo car.
Here are few videos on youtube related to Google self-driving car.
You can read more from google official blog
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/what-were-driving-at.html
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/update-from-chairman.html
Other source :
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/science/10google.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all
http://www.smartplanet.com/technology/blog/thinking-tech/googles-self-driving-car-in-action/6422/
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