Google's self-driving car project

09/10/2010

Google has been one of the companies that wanted to help solve problems by adopting technology as the answer.

Google identified one of people's daily problem is car's safety and efficiency. For that, the company developed cars that can drive for themselves. Google's goal is to help prevent traffic accidents, free up people's time and reduce carbon emissions by fundamentally changing car use.

Google's automated cars that were manned by trained operators, use video cameras, radar sensors and a laser range finder to "see" other traffic, as well as detailed maps to navigate the roads.

To develop this technology, Google gathered some of the engineers from the DARPA Challenges, a series of autonomous vehicle races organized by the U.S. Government.

"We've always been optimistic about technology's ability to advance society, which is why we have pushed so hard to improve the capabilities of self-driving cars beyond where they are today," said Google in a its blog post. "While this project is very much in the experimental stage, it provides a glimpse of what transportation might look like in the future thanks to advanced computer science. And that future is very exciting."