Google gets its way as California OKs driverless cars
Skift Take
While on one hand this is an amazing development that will allow people to easily move from one place to another with greater safety and without having to navigate on their own, the technology has been around for over a century. It's called a train.
Brown hitched a futuristic ride to Google's Mountain View headquarters to sign landmark legislation that will for the first time allow self-driving cars to hit California streets by 2015.
The governor had a look of utter amazement as he walked out of Google's "autonomous" Prius after a test-drive with Brin, who is so used to the robot car that he is tired of driving regular ones. How'd it go?
"Great," the governor said. "Only way to go, guys."
Supporters hailed it as the day science fiction starts to become reality, though it will be at least a few years before the first driverles
