Google engineer: rent car could save millions of lives each year

Although you can save lives, many of us thought that the conception of a car without driver self-driving was something that would never again see in our lives. Professor of computer science at Stanford University and deep engineer of Google, Sebastian Thrun, thinks otherwise.

You've seen the videos of YouTube of the Toyota Prius with a wide range of metal on the roof which is promoted as a self-driving car from Google? If not, I enlighten you.

Google, which needs no introduction, has a fleet of automated cars that have covered more than 140,000 miles of various driving conditions without having an accident. Research and development is to ultimately replacing the problems of human driving a car controlled by computer that could save a million lives each year. Sebastian Thrun, in the video below, goes on to explain how the road crashes are the leading cause of death for young people, mainly due to human error rather than error of the machine.

It is quite possible that one day we will see self-driving cars on our roads and local streets if projects team Thrun and Google will continue to be successful with. Do you could imagine the day people could text and drive without worry about the grave consequences?