Monday, November 01, 2010

Google testing self-driving car


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Google is testing a car it believes is ____________________. The Internet giant has been testing the car that drives itself for several months. ____________________ thousands of miles of public roads in California. The car is ____________________, lasers and video cameras. A Google spokesperson explained to concerned motorists that the car has never been driven “unmanned,” and had test drivers, just ____________________ wrong. The tech company says its vehicles are still “____________________ experimental stage”. Google’s interest in artificial intelligence is a sign that it ____________________ beyond the web. It is an extension of its Street View project, in which millions of streets have been photographed and put online.

Google’s blog said the company’s ____________________ of automotive technology is part of its plans to make the world a better place. “Larry [Page] and Sergey [Brin] founded Google because they ____________________ really big problems using technology,” it wrote. The post continued: “One of the big problems we’re working on today is car safety and efficiency. Our goal is to help ____________________, free up people’s time and ____________________ by fundamentally changing car use.” Google CEO Eric Schmidt said last month that ____________________ cars were invented before computers: “Your car should drive itself; it’s amazing to me that we ____________________,” he told reporters.


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