What do you get when a couple dozen former Google, Apple, and Tesla employees get together? A startup called Otto -- quite possibly the most disruptive tech since the Internet.
Google says humans still need to be present. Google has been testing out their self-driving cars around the company's Mountain Valley, California headquarters for quite some time.
Google's self-driving car will be hitting the road soon, as a full-blown for-profit independent company under Google's new umbrella company, Alphabet. The evolution of Google's self-driving car will take a step up in 2016, as Alphabet seeks to compete with Uber through its own self-driving version of a ride-sharing service.
Test cars are co-piloted by a human. While Google was test driving its self-driving cars near the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California on Thursday, one of the cars was pulled over by police for going much slower than the posted speed limit.
Google's self-driving cars involved in accidents, but the human drivers' fault. Google's self-driving cars have been busy driving around the company's headquarters and mapping roads.
California started allowing self-driving cars to hit public roads for testing in September. Already, there have been four accidents involving these cars.
As crazy as it sounds, self-driving cars could be less than a decade away. As crazy as it sounds, self-driving cars could be less than a decade away. Nissan said last week that it would be selling "autonomous" cars by 2020, while General Motors also said it would be doing the same.
