Chris Urmson: How a driverless car sees the road

Statistically, the least reliable part of the car is ... the driver. Chris Urmson heads up Google's driverless car program, one of several efforts to remove humans from the driver's seat. He...

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So in 1885, Karl Benz invented the automobile.Later that year, he took it out for the first public test drive,and -- true story -- crashed into a wall.For the last 130 years,we've been working around that least reliable part of the car, the driver.We've made the car stronger.We've added seat belts, we've added air bags,and in the last decade, we've actually started trying to make the car smarterto fix that bug, the driver.Now, today I'm going to talk to you a little bit about the differencebetween patching around the problem with driver assistance systemsand actually having fully self-driving carsand what they can do for the world.I'm also going to talk to you a little bit about our carand allow you to see how it ...
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