In an important decision, a branch of the US government has declared that the definition of a 'driver' needs to be changed and legal car requirements altered to make room for self-driving cars.
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For the first time, Google's autonomous vehicles have been involved in an accident that hurt humans. Not surprisingly though, the autonomous car wasn't at fault - a distracted human driver was.
The prototypes are now complete as Google shows the world the first completed self-driving car on Google+. The vehicle is expected to start cruising the streets of California early next year.
