For decades automatic cars have been possible, but only at very low speeds on well marked roads, and even then only be themselves.  Recently modern high power CPUs have allowed quite a bit more processing power to ride onboard, and that in turn (along with other things, of course) has allowed Google's self-driving cars can do freeways, mountain roads, and other such situations previously impossible!

"Thrun showed a video montage of the auto-driving cars on regular roads that was pretty amazing. You could see the cars avoiding things like a deer that dashed in front of one or another making it carefully around a small hillside road, as a large truck came toward it. The Google research program using artificial intelligence to revolutionize the automobile is proof that the company’s ambitions reach beyond the search engine business."

Source and more, here:  iSpyce.com

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