Autonomous driving, Waymo LLC, Mountain View, California, USA

Watch the Google Self-Driving Car take over a closed circuit track at top speed

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Take a ride inside the Google Self-Driving Car as it takes over a closed circuit track at top speed

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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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We announced our self-driving car project in 2010 to make driving safer, more enjoyable, and more efficient. Having safely completed over 200,000 miles of computer-led driving, we wanted to share one of our favorite moments. Here's Steve, who joined us for a special drive on a carefully programmed route to experience being behind the wheel in a whole new way. We organized this test as a technical experiment, but we think it's also a promising look at what autonomous technology may one day deliver if rigorous technology and safety standards can be met.

A version of this video with audio captions is available here:
https://youtu.be/peDy2st2XpQ

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The Google self-driving car navigates some common scenarios on city streets near the Googleplex.

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As Samsung and Apple work to track your health in new ways, Google tracks where you parked the car. Also, Vine gets a website and Twitter tests a mute button.

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A new Google Now feature keeps you from losing your car ever again.

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After logging nearly 700,000 highway miles, Google's self-driving cars are roaming city streets trying to master urban obstacles from construction zones to railroad crossings. The tech giant invited journalists to see the tech up close. CNET's Sumi Das goes for a test ride.

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What is it like to ride around busy city streets in one of Google's self-driving car? CNET"s Sumi Das and Seth Rosenblatt give us the Inside Scoop after they test ride the cars in Mountain View, Calif.

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Every year 1.2 million people die worldwide in traffic-related incidents, and over 90% of those accidents are due to human error. The Google self-driving car team hopes to improve people's lives by developing fully self-driving technology that can improve road safety and make it easier for people to get around.

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Fully autonomous driving has always been the goal of our project, because we think this could improve road safety and help lots of people who can't drive.

We're now developing prototypes of vehicles that have been designed from the ground up to drive themselves—just push a button and they'll take you where you want to go! We'll use these vehicles to test our software and learn what it will really take to bring this technology into the world.

Watch volunteers take a ride in Mountain View, California.

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We finally get to see Google's prototype for their self-driving car, the LG G3 is announced and Samsung plans to bring its third smartwatch in less than a year. Yikes.

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By designing a prototype vehicle from the ground up, the Google self-driving car team was able to reimagine what a vehicle should look like and how it should work when it's built for self-driving. Jaime, a systems engineer, explains how we've designed some of the components of the self-driving vehicle.

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Reports say Google is working on its own version of Uber while Uber is mimicking Google with its own self-driving cars. Meanwhile, we wait for the Samsung Galaxy S6 to be revealed next month.
"Watch out Google, Uber may be making its own self-driving cars"

The ride-hailing service partners with Carnegie Mellon University to build a high-tech lab that focuses on mapping, vehicle safety and autonomy technology.

by Dara Kerr
February 2, 2015

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