Google comes one step closer to Skynet...

[Ginto8]

...With cars that drive themselves.

No, I'm not shitting you: http://gawker.com/5660400/googles-secre ... t-on-video



thoughts? is this a good idea? will these turn on us? will this finally make our roads safe? (their only accident was being rear-ended by a human-driven car)

[ajtgarber]

This is actually pretty cool, I guess its not really a bad idea, but its just kinda weird for some reason thinking about a computer driving a car (maybe its just me). Only one accident though, and it wasn't the cars fault, thats impressive. How many steps are left until Google goes SkyNet?

[eatcomics]

I think its the next logical step. I mean what else are cars going to do? Fly, and that's about it...

[Marx Chaotix]

This just goes to show that google simply has TO MUCH FUCKING MONEY and to much extra time spent on doing random insane shit. I mean... how do you go from a simple browsing engine to this? O_o it just boggles the mind how much power a simple small nuetral company gets from maintaining one browser. It's just building up steps. Next thing you know they'll make google self-operated planes and hovercrafts.

[K-Bal]

I believe that most vehicles are better controlled by computers than humans, especially if there are no human controlled vehicles.

[Web]

I saw something like this a year or so ago but not from google, it was from another company, if i remember right i was watching the Discovery channel at the time.

[dandymcgee]

So apparently Google also has a fairly successful social networking site going on: http://www.orkut.com

It seems it was launched just a week or two before Facebook in 2004. It's mostly used in Brazil and India.

[GroundUpEngine]

I believe that most vehicles are better controlled by computers than humans, especially if there are no human controlled vehicles.

True, less human errors!

[THe Floating Brain]

You know its interesting, only a few years ago we thought most of the stuff coming out today would either be millions of dollars or impossible ( Kinect, Cloud services, some of the new features on the Xbox, back up cameras, this, ect.).

[janequorzar]

You know its interesting, only a few years ago we thought most of the stuff coming out today would either be millions of dollars or impossible ( Kinect, Cloud services, some of the new features on the Xbox, back up cameras, this, ect.).

I agree. I mean take the example of the Microwave. If you took it back to the 1400s during the crusades, they would have burned you at the stake for practicing witchcraft. Its a reason I'm an atheist.

[short]

Your an atheist because of the microwave?

[dandymcgee]

Your an atheist because of the microwave?

Lol.

[WreckKa]

It was my robotic vacuum cleaner that converted me to being faithless I'm personally pretty psyched about this, and I think that if we're ever going to leave this chunk of rock called earth, this is the kind of technology we need to do it.

[short]

It was my robotic vacuum cleaner that converted me to being faithless I'm personally pretty psyched about this, and I think that if we're ever going to leave this chunk of rock called earth, this is the kind of technology we need to do it.

Agreed. I need to be commanding my own warp-9 capable ship before I die.