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Old 01-04-2013, 11:47 PM  
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I am going for 2021 for the first time that I get in a car and tell it where to go and I am the only person in the car.
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I'd say the technology is there now. The infrastructure is not yet?
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Google is already doing it in CA now, here is one of many articles you can find about the subject out there...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmul...ading-the-way/
Over a year ago I was in OC, California stopped at a red light. I watched one of these cars, pull up next to me in the right lane. I looked right through my vehicle window and into theirs. There was NO driver. It was a WTF moment. When the light turned green, it proceeded to drive forward, and I proceeded to slide in behind it, and see where it goes.

It was amazing to watch this thing drive through the city for the next 10-15 minutes. It kept driving at the correct speed, kept a safe/reasonable distance behind other vehicles. Stopped at the lights as needed, signals on when making turns. It was a cool and bizarre feeling all at the same time knowing this existed and I was able to watch it in motion.
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