Sebastian Thrun: Google's driverless car

http://www.ted.com Sebastian Thrun helped build Google's amazing driverless car, powered by a very personal quest to save lives and reduce traffic accidents. Jawdropping video shows the DARPA Challenge-winning car motoring through busy city traffic with no one behind the wheel, and dramatic test drive footage from TED2011 demonstrates how fast the thing can really go.

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[SamAndrew27]

This is so INCREDIBLE!!! I say bring them...then I can go to the bar and just get HAMMERED and it's no problem getting home!! :D

[KurosenvsGrither]

everyone thinks they're a good driver, but in reality nobody is. I want this project to be completed as fast as possible.

[SamAndrew27]

@Dalaverenas Hey douchebag, fuck you and your pseudo-intellectual, pretentious ass comment. Troll bitch.

[Dalaverenas]

@SamAndrew27

The sheer amount of stupidity involved in this comment is astounding.

[mupp3tbab3h]

I would never trust something like that, even if it is more accurate or something. Thinking about just sitting there it is weird.

[DJMixtrixx2009]

Let's just hope it does not rely on a Windows OS, to then be greeted by a Blue Screen Of Death whilst doing 100 MPH.

[zomcom11]

There is no natural selection for humans anymore lol

[Linkage1992]

@USCGAST A boring safe place? You think thousands of people dying behind the wheel every year is exciting? No matter how much we improve the safety of cars these deaths will continue to occur until people change their attitudes, which will never happen. Self driving cars are the only solution. And if you love driving, I'm sure there will be places where you can drive for fun still in existence.

[Linkage1992]

@RyunSharp Historical trends point to the opposite becoming true. As technology has progressed, people have begun working harder and longer. This is not what people predicted 40 years ago, because they thought all the mundane jobs back then would be taken by robots (which happened to an extent) They did not anticipate the advent of more specialised jobs which take up more time.

[RyunSharp]

I want to live in a world where robots do all the boring and hard 9 to 5 jobs and cook and clean and make my own house so I can play videogames for the rest of my life.