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Look, no hands! Blind man is first user of Google self-driving car [Video]

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Steve Mahan, who is legally blind, gets behind the wheel of a Google self-driving car to test out the possibilities of the technology.



The video shows Mr Mahan sitting in the driver's seat as the car steers itself using a sensors to position itself safely in traffic and decide when to exit junctions.



The automatic car takes him to a Taco Bell drive-through restaurant and a dry cleaners as Mahan jokes that this is some of the best driving I've ever done.



A self-driving car would change the life of people with limited mobility. It would give me the independence and the flexibility to go to the places I both want to go and need to go, when I need to do those things, Mahan says in the video.



Google, which posted the video on its Google+ account, first introduced the concept of the self-driving car in 2010. After safely completing more than 200,000 miles of computer-led driving, the company say they are getting closer to producing the car of the future.



There are currently no laws in California about the use of self-driving vehicles. Police have allowed the test drives to go ahead as long as a licensed driver is in the car and able to take manual control in an emergency.



Link to video: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...is-first-user-of-Google-self-driving-car.html



Question: What are your thoughts about a self-driving car?
 
Provided it's well made, it should take a lot of human error out of driving. No more drunk drivers for example.

Great potential...
 
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No offence, but I wouldn't get in a car without a driver, same as most people wouldn't get into a plane with no pilot. Technology is all and good, but sometimes humans are needed
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