''Google's self-guided car could drive the next wave of unemployment''

From The Guardian

''Governor Brown signed the bill at Google's HQ in Mountain View. This was good PR on his part, but it also made sense because Google has led the charge into autonomous (aka driverless) vehicles. For several years, Toyota Prius hybrids that have been specially adapted by the company's engineers have been driving the roads of California. To date, they have logged 300,000 miles with only one accident – caused by a human-controlled car that ran into one of them. And they have now logged 50,000 miles without a human having to take the wheel.''

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'Study finds US intelligent transportation industry has grown to $48B; total North American ITS products and services market of $52B'

from green car congress........

"A new study released by the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America) found intelligent transportation to be a fast-growing sector valued at approximately $48 billion, slightly larger than the direct mail industry. Results indicate that cities and states with drastically reduced budgets are turning to technology solutions to maximize existing highway capacity.

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) is the collective term for the use of electronics, communications, and information processing technology to improve all aspects—such as safety, mobility and the environment—of the surface transportation system. A few examples of ITS applications include advanced traffic and incident management systems; electronic tolling and payment systems; vehicle crash avoidance technologies; smart traffic signals; and real-time traffic, transit, and parking information"............READ MORE

'Google's driverless car'

China Gains On Google in Driverless Car Race With 177 Mile Road Trip (video)...........READ MORE HERE