Google Working on Cars That Drive Themselves

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Take a look at your arsenal of gadgets, what do you see? You’ve probably got a high powered portable computer, a large touchscreen touting smartphone and perhaps even a tablet. Much of this stuff has become standard fare but if you go back even 5 years, many of the things we use on a daily basis would be unheard of – 20 years? Forget about it.

This technology is thanks to the major technological revolution we are currently engrossed in. In fact, things are moving so fast that by the time a device hits the market, another product is already in the pipeline to make it obsolete. So, with things moving at such a rapid pace it leads us to question, what’s next?

Google is no stranger to technological discovery with things like their Android mobile operating system and extremely advanced search engine (among other things, of course). However, what they are working on now is something that will surely make consumers see the company in a new light.

What might this be, you ask? Well, according to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, the search engine giant is currently at work on cars that are completely automated. In fact, their progress is so far along that they’ve already got a whole slew of self driving Toyota Prius that have logged over 140,000+ test miles. Apparently, the work is done by a whole slew of sensors, cameras, laser range fingers and GPS technology that, when coupled together, make for a completely autonomous driving experience.

Unfortunately, seeing how this technology is extremely new it probably won’t be made publicly available anytime soon if ever but the innovation at work here is tremendous. It also leads us to question what industry Google will find their way into next. They’ve already dipped their feet in virtually ever technologically focused industry but have yet to make it into the auto industry.

Do I smell a Google car just over the horizon?