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Driverless cars set to hit the road

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    California governor signs law clearing the way for self-driving automobiles

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Perhaps -- drive home the point governor Jerry Brown arrived today at Google headquarters in Mountain View in itself -- Toyota Prius.

He then went inside signed the law clearing -- -- for drivers cars to hit the road.

This self driving cars is another step forward.

In this long march.

Of California pioneering the future and -- not -- the country.

But the whole world.

The new -- will set safety standards including requiring a human being to be behind the wheel to take over in case of an emergency.

But that may eventually change according to Google co-founder Sergey -- you can.

Have a car.

Drop you off here work.

Get out walk through a little bit of green space.

And it goes off and take somebody else somewhere else he says driver less cars may enable large scale car sharing and potentially reduce the demand for parking.

Engineers say driver less cars will not be subject to what causes most automobile crashes human error.

I expect that -- and cars are going to be far safer than human driven cars judging by reaction some are still skeptical.

Just think that they -- say is safe.

Don't mean.

Mechanically something can't go wrong sounds a little bit like that Jackson's race to watch -- I was a kid right.

I like driving so I actually -- the process of driving even though you know the computers is is operated car.

You never know -- army now function.