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it's an amazing demonstration of Technology why SUVs winding through the streets of Mountain View California yielding to pedestrians and navigating intersections sounds ordinary but these are Google's self-driving cars which a handful of journalists had the chance to test drive here on the book Google self-driving car is a car that's been outfitted with the latest in lidar and other sensing technologies to drive your car without a human behind the wheel using that tech the vehicle detects every car person and object in the immediate area it's driving itself but after about five minutes everyone's you know well is that all it does it's just incredibly common once you get used to it google has been developing these autonomous vehicles since 2009 and aims to make them available by 2017 previously they'd been really restricted to freeway test conditions and now they are working in an actual city which is a much more complex driving situation in many ways the cars handled the streets better than humans by avoiding other cars blind spots and shifting slightly in the lane to make room for cyclists but the software in these vehicles is far from being ready to ship in a parking lot there are no lane lines and many cars are reversing it's a challenge that engineers at Google haven't solved just yet Google is racing against other car makers like Audi GM Ford and Volvo to develop autonomous driving technology in Mountain View California I'm see me das cnet com for CBS News