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Comment by MatthewPhillips | Hacker News Reader

The article is unclear, but it sounds like Google is not involved in this.

Why isn't Google selling this technology to car companies? It seems like an excellent second revenue stream.

Why should they buy it? I think a lot of people in the tech community are under the impression that this is something Google has invented and that this will be a new cash cow. The reality is car companies have been working on this technology for a while, with many "intelligent" features already existing in higher end cars.

Google seems to be ahead of the curve in this tech. I'd love to be proven wrong, have any links?

I've been reading about this randomly over the years so I don't have any links in mind, these are off Wikipedia.

http://www.thenational.ae/business/technology/an-automated-a... http://www.wired.com/autopia/2008/01/gm-says-driverl/ http://www.audiusa.com/us/brand/en/tools/news/pool/2010/07/n... http://media.vw.com/newsrelease.do;jsessionid=89FFC8CECBE997... http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1068584_2013-mercedes-ben... http://media.cadillac.com/media/us/en/cadillac/news.detail.h... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19829906

Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EUREKA_Prometheus_Project.

A mean time between human interventions of 9 km may not seem something to brag about, but this project ended before Google was founded aka 10 Moore's generations ago. I think Mercedes has continued working on driverless cars ever since.

Volvo are planning to ship their first self driving cars in 2014.

http://blogs.wsj.com/drivers-seat/2012/12/03/volvo-plans-to-...

A friend from grad school was working on this at Toyota about 6 years ago, so I can confirm this didn't somehow take the car companies by surprise.

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