Self-Driving Cars, aka Auto-Drive

This is an innovation that I have been wanting to see since the 1980s. At any rate, Google has been experimenting with self-driving cars that use their cloud services to navigate. "What We're Driving At" is the blog post that announces what they have been up to in playing with self-driving cars.

Google's engineering team are the students from CMU and Stanford that participated in the DARPA Grand Challenge series. The Stanford team ended up winning it in 2005 and the CMU team won the DARPA Grand Urban Challenge.

Imagine the changes to society if self-driving cars became the norm. The amount of additional productivity that would give back to everyone that commutes is in calculable.