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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[California292292]

Implement this, together with electric cars, and wireless rechargers under the road.

[AntiFox08]

If they could implement this at a decent price and not have hundreds out of the billions of people owning it, I'm all for it. If they're going to price themselves out of a deal, no thanks.

[Zumorimoto]

Or a hacker taking over the drive system....

[Vchat200]

Although not covered in this video, but in other places: This technology is merely a supplement to human drivers for the forseeable future so in cases like this the (human) driver would be able to take over. I'm pretty positive once they get to a point that the car could drive itself without a human even being there, they'd cover these corner cases fairly well.

[804366317]

Thumbs up if you actually enjoy driving.

[Jonki408]

58 People are Amish

[StormFlank6]

this system has so far clocked over 180 000miles i think its proved it itself great invention just hope its not exspensive then there is no meaning of building this coz not many people would be able to afford this car make it affordable

[njdevil281]

your prob right

[Unlifeking]

If this becomes the norm in america i can see a lot of cross country truckers losing their jobs, machines can drive constantly without need for sleep.

[PlanetUbla]

What happens when Google, Walmart and Amazon have all our money? How do the local economies survive, where there are no other businesses left?

I see this as another step back for society... we need a new way of distributing wealth... the destruction of local jobs and buiness is going to have a major impact soon.

We need to focus technology on redistributing wealth as a priority... not focus on centralising power to the super rich any further...

[PlanetUbla]

50 jobs created - a billion lost... there is a serious problem with your equations.

The beauty of small companies grabbing monies is that that money is distributed across the country... it is not focused in the pockets of Wall Street, Banks and Walmarts super rich alone... I would rather have a thousand millionaires living local to me, then one or two in some remote location of Walmart HQ... people need to wake up and smell the ashes...

[lev0n3241968]

Night rider comes to life.