Self driving cars

Soon we'll have self driving cars. Have you seen how far this technology has advanced?
The stumbling block has been the conflict between human drivers and a vehicle that strictly flows the letter of the law. NY Times on driverless cars
Here's an owner showing how his car automatically stays in the lane.

http://youtu.be/zY_zqEmKV1k
Here's a customer being given a demo of a self-parking car, so you can see what it's like to park for the first time.

http://youtu.be/4yJcTQrSAs0
Here's a TED talk on developing the driverless technology. Gets most interesting at 7:51

http://youtu.be/tiwVMrTLUWg
Here's another presentation on the challenges of driverless systems...predicting what unpredictable humans are going to do. Doesn't get interesting until 5:24 A google rep entreats a city council to let them test their self-driving vehicles on the roads in Austin. At 8:25, she goes through some unusual situations a self-driving car has to recognize and navigate.

http://youtu.be/br7dV9irIb8

Here's a test model Mercedes going through the driverless paces in real traffic

http://youtu.be/VDwMhSobaOg
Here's a Mercedes concept car showing off for reporters.

http://youtu.be/8aEWHdduPwc

Elon Musk describes the autopilot technology in a Tesla. Skip to 6:31

http://youtu.be/aBYnj10wzbw

Here's a driver in his own Tesla showing the currently-enabled portion of autopilot, the cruise control that stops and starts the vehicle behind cars in front in city traffic.

http://youtu.be/PcwObeGB_mU 

Here's a test of 3 automatic braking systems both against aspired vehicle and a slow vehicle. http://youtu.be/PzHM6PVTjXo Monthly updates on the google project at
http://www.google.com/selfdrivingcar/
http://www.google.com/selfdrivingcar/reports/