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self-driving cars piloted cars driverless cars automated cars call them whatever you want we've been hearing about the technology for a long time you're near Google headquarters in California you've probably even seen a few self-driving cars putting around it's going to be years and years and years until we can actually buy this right not necessarily dynamic cruise control has been around a long time it's like the 90s started on just a few like super premium models now you can get in all sorts of cars dynamic cruise just make sure that you stay the same distance behind the car in front of you so the car in front of you breaks you slow down it speeds up you speed up time to touch the gas pedal it's really cool current cars can also do something called lane key which basically uses cameras on the windshield to make sure that you stay in your lane you start to drift right to get a warning even steer back into the lanes the you have to touch the wheel next year's Tesla's we'll be able to pick you up in front of your house on a schedule of your choosing in 2017 Cadillac is gonna offer something called super cruise which is basically the same thing that Tesla is doing next year it's just going to take control the car for you you won't have to do hardly anything before too long we'll have highways filled with cars that are chatting monks themselves keeping a safe distance or maximizing speed so what happens when cars don't need us at all becomes more of a legal question like who's going to be liable if your car crashes who's to blame is it used at the car company who knows we got to figure that out but if we do then becomes an open field anything's possible Google's latest self-driving cars a little two-seaters that they built themselves you know the ones that kind of look like emoji don't even have steering wheels and you'll be able to summon them with a smartphone app uber has already said that someday they're going to just replace all their cars with self-driving cars and one of drivers in the future new cars even need to look like cars maybe not maybe they're just dark compartments where you can get a few more minutes of sleep before you get to work shipping trucks could just be giant rolling warehouses for this package is too big drop-off by delivery thing why do they need to be a certain size they can just be miles long because they're controlled by computer the expressway becomes a super expressway a never-ending pipeline of cabins and containers traveling at speeds impossible by today's standards so once we nail this self-driving part cars really don't need to look like cars at all you