> It was slow. It was cautious. It was safe, a more attentive driver than any human could possibly ever be.
> And later that evening, as I snaked my way back to San Francisco on the four-to-five lane wide Interstate 880, I wished it was the Google car driving me home.
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> That's a terrible complaint, isn't it? The impeccable standards are a sign the technology is really quite magnificent.
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> The way Google sees it is that even with those theoretical scenarios - where it's forced to choose between what it thinks is the least harmful - the Google car is still far smarter than a human, and, crucially, will save thousands of lives by existing in the first place.
> Riding in a Google car may be slow and boring, but the effect it will have on the world certainly isn't.