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How the Internet
Will Transform Our Cars

OPINION

Jan 4, 2013 1:15 PM CST

How the Internet Will Transform Our Cars

Huge changes are coming to auto industry: Thilo Koslowski

(Newser) - When the Internet combined with the telephone to create the smartphone, it fundamentally changed our world. Now the Internet is in the process of combining with our automobiles, and it promises even bigger transformations, writes Thilo Koslowski in Wired . Apple, Sprint, and Intel have all made moves recently into the...

Google Gets First
Self-Driving Car
License

May 9, 2012 3:45 AM CDT

Google Gets First Self-Driving Car License

Future car hits the road in Nevada

(Newser) - Google is officially speeding into the future now that it has its mitts on the first-ever-issued license for a self-driving car , courtesy of the state of Nevada. There's just one hitch: state regulations require that the self-driving car must have two human operators inside—one behind the wheel to...

Blind Man Takes Spin
in Self-Driving Car

Mar 29, 2012 6:55 PM CDT

Blind Man Takes Spin in Self-Driving Car

Video: Google vehicle brings him to dry cleaners and ... Taco Bell

(Newser) - Steve Mahan is legally blind, but he managed a relatively nifty feat thanks to Google's self-driving car: He drove himself to the dry cleaners and to Taco Bell, reports the Los Angeles Times . Some Google folks were in the Prius with him the whole time, and the company says...

Nevada OKs Robot Cars

Feb 17, 2012 1:19 PM CST

Nevada OKs Robot Cars

New rules allow companies to begin testing

(Newser) - Nevada drivers might be sharing the road with robots someday. The state's Department of Motor Vehicles has approved regulations allowing self-driving cars to hit the street, PC Mag reports. The rules govern test vehicles—like the one Google has already built —and will eventually apply to those released...

Google Tests Self-Driving Cars

Oct 10, 2010 1:05 PM CDT

Google Tests Self-Driving Cars

But mass production is at least 8 years out

(Newser) - Google, you can drive my car: In its continued quest for world domination, the search engine behemoth is now dabbling in a little thing it likes to call self-driving cars, reports the New York Times. The fleet of seven has safely logged some 140,000 miles—albeit with "drivers"...