Video from Inside a Google Self-Driving Car

cars Google Sebastian Thrun Self-Driving Car TED 2011

by Robert Quigley | 9:34 am, March 4th, 2011

At this week’s TED 2011 conference, Google has been inviting attendees to take a spin inside its self-driving cars. Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan managed to take a short video of his ride.

Yesterday at TED, Sebastian Thrun, the Google engineer heading up the project, shared his personal motivation in researching self-driving cars: When he was 18, his best friend died in a car accident, and since then he “has dedicated himself to saving a million lives a year by eradicating driver error.”

(via Search Engine Land)

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i’ve wondered about the use of self driving cars. Is it important so while i’m going through my 45 min morning commute i can concentrate on more important things, like reading geekosystem, rather than concentrating on the road, or just expand public transportation.
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14 of the Best Geekiest Beers

Given beer's pervasive place in human history, it's not surprising that the geeky pastimes of drinkers would eventually rub off on the beers themselves. The result is a veritable cornucopia of nerdy beers, 14 of which are right here.

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Max I'm hotdog princess.
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Eric Limer So listening to some Andrew W.K. has successfully woken me up, but now all I want to do is party.
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James Plafke Asura's Wrath continues to look like a parody of video games, but is actually a serious video game.
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Eric Limer So the title of a judge in UK High Court (when not addressed directly) is "Mr(s). Justice." Words cannot describe the awesomeness.
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Max Some people want to live in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. I just want to wander around medieval europe in smelly robes. #dreams
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Eric Limer I just drank the milk left at the end of a bowl of cereal. It was the first time in my entire life that I've ever done that.
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James Plafke Why is "butthurt" such a good and accurate term?
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Max Baaaaa http://t.co/fMukV6Of
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Eric Limer I'm almost bummed out that I have no more dishes to wash. It can be a pretty zen activity.
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Eric Limer Cloacae are gross.
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Eric Limer The downtime before a movie is when I'm happiest to have a smartphone.
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Max Remember that time you found our your friend had those "stain resistant pants" and you spent the whole night dumping pepsi on him?
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Max I'm making fun, but part of me will always admire fic writers.
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Max What happened on that Thursday afternoon ten years ago that stopped the fic writer, already 30+ stories in?
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Max "This page last modified Thursday, May 2, 2002 1:06 PM PST" The only fitting epitaph for a Neon Genesis Evangelion fanfiction site.
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Max Harvard University has hosted a clutch of Neon Genesis Evanglion fanfiction for fourteen years. http://t.co/ZEgVGSh8
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Max (I'm old)
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Max I just looked at http://t.co/EXD81Ynn for the first time in easily ten years and I am saddened how I recognize so few of the animes
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Eric Limer I like that the general consensus regarding rules of grammar is that they don't apply so long as you're sufficiently badass.
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Eric Limer Well, I guess I don't need a good graphics card to read books. :/
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