Cars & Will

Internet-connected cars represent a new frontier for mobile software.

Google’s first self-driving car user is Steve Mahan, a man who is 95% blind!

I hate to say it, but there are a lot of terrible drivers out there. So terrible, in fact, that experts estimate that self-driving cars could spare millions of car crashes every year.

Don’t expect self-driving cars to take over the roads anytime soon. Here’s what carmakers are really working on.

Along the base of the Santa Cruz Mountains runs Highway 280, serving as an alternate corridor for commuters heading to San Jose, San Francisco, or points across Silicon Valley. Amongst the hills and satellite dishes serving Stanford University, a single small vehicle makes its way north, staying steady and matching the speed limit in one of the lanes. The reaction to this car is always the same the first time you see it: the realization that no one is behind the wheel, the double-take that “no one is behind the wheel,” and then the furious looking around to see what vehicle around it has the remote control. Once you see the roof-mounted Lidar (think laser beam radar) and the Google name affixed along side the car, you realize this is the Google Driverless Car.