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California paves the way for self-driving cars

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    State legalizes driverless vehicles on roads and highways

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California just become the latest state to clear the way for driver -- cars.

Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill to create regulations.

For testing and operating self driving vehicles Nevada and Florida have passed similar laws.

Google executives say.

Auto anonymous vehicles.

Ought autonomous at other account coming up with something new.

Autonomous vehicles will be a reality for ordinary people within five years joining us now.

Carol -- that she's -- features editor for the automotive website Edmunds dot com how are you.

I'm good that should get out of the way it affected how the car's gonna know that the left lane is that is this is this is the slow lane on the long -- express what.

How are these -- gonna work with regular people who drive like regular people.

I think the idea is if you don't have let regular people drive things will go a lot more smoothly and.

What did that sounds -- -- teenagers it's just how you gonna stop that it it's not something's gonna happen overnight.

It's not gonna happen overnight and I think that mix of autonomous cars and driver driven cars presents a little bit of that.

That's a rough transition perhaps from from now until the future.

How does that car no we built the patterns of other cars I guess that there's there's probably a lot of computer in there that I don't know about.

Tons of computers yes sensors all over and recognition of where Elaine boundaries are how close they are the current front have -- the car behind them is -- All sort of doing monitoring all the time.

Will it understand it that if this cargo and 62 in this turbulent sixty will get between get it done it moved to the right real fast.

I mean that's as you have special programming for that I would hope so because those skills are very important and if my car is not an aggressive driver it's can never land can never work sixth avenue in Manhattan.

As a senate thinking at a special program for that I guess though New York I don't do you think they can -- work in a city like new Yorker may be like -- Cisco or Boston.

Well theoretically if they have sensors and they have the built in mapping and they algorithms they need they'll be able to read exactly where they are and know how to play against good -- -- -- your details and see what happens thank you.

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