Google is not only Search Engine they will flood market with Drivelress Cars

Those who believe that Google is the worlds biggest search engine or they are into handphone business , they will soon be surprised to know that their driverless cars  will shortly becoming a commercial reality. In fact their Chauffeur car is already running on the roads of California in USA.

Chauffeur in action 

 Almost without noticing it, our world crossed a significant threshold last year when Jerry Brown, the governor of California, signed into law a bill that will allow driverless cars on to his state's roads from 2015. Insofar as most people noticed this event at all, they probably sniffed derisively. For some, it'll be seen as an example of techno-hubris – flags on the moon stuff – as one of my acquaintances put it. For others, it will be seen as yet another confirmation of the proposition that the continental United States slopes gently from east to west, with the result that everything with a screw loose rolls into California.

How this car looks from inside

Governor Brown signed the bill at Google's HQ in Mountain View. This was good PR on his part, but it also made sense because Google has led the charge into  driverless vehicles. For several years, Toyota Prius hybrids that have been specially adapted by the company's engineers have been driving the roads of California. To date, they have logged 300,000 miles with only one accident – caused by a human-controlled car that ran into one of them. And they have now logged 50,000 miles without a human having to take the wheel. There are other players in the market who have also developed similar cars, which are almost 90 % automatic like BMW X5, Tesla, Mercedes Benz S500, Audi A6, Nissan Electric LEAF, they will also stir the market  in near future.

 Google's co-founder, Sergey Brin, has recently announced the company’s intention to bring autonomous vehicles to the market in five years commercially . He says that autonomous vehicles would be significantly safer than human-controlled ones. Some 40,000 people are killed every year in road accidents in the US alone and many, if not most, of those are caused by human error. This has the power to change lives, Too many people are underserved by the current transport system. They are blind, or too young to drive, or too old, or intoxicated. He also anticipate  that manual operation of cars was inefficient: autonomous vehicles could make better use of the road and reduce the size of car parks by fitting into smaller areas than humans could get them into.

Ignore the evangelism for a moment and think about what Google has achieved. Its engineers have demonstrated that with smart software and an array of sensors, a machine can perform a task of sophistication and complexity most of us assumed would always require the capabilities of humans. And that means our assumptions about what machines can and cannot do are urgently in need of updating.

This isn't just about cars, by the way. Economists in the US are increasingly puzzled by the fact that even after its recession officially ended, the rate of job-creation is much lower than expected and the mean length of time for which people are unemployed has rocketed to 40 weeks, twice as long as that observed during any previous postwar recovery. Economic theory says that when companies begin to grow or become profitable again, they buy equipment and hire workers. But that isn't happening. Companies are still buying kit, but they're not employing workers.

So where did the jobs go? As you'd expect from economists, there are lots of theories. The most intriguing explanation, for my money, has been offered by two MIT academics, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, in their book Race Against the Machine. Crudely stated, their view is that advances in computing of the kind embodied by the Google self-driving car represent the next wave of job-eliminating technology. Many skills that were hitherto deemed secure (such as driving) may be devalued and might eventually become worthless, at least in the job market.

Any good thing is not safe from thieves and cheaters. Remember when Michael Dell   discovered that his kids were tweeting   where and when the uber-wealthy family was meeting for dinner?  If hackers could get into this future hypothetical driving system, they could find the rich people in traffic and sell this information to fleets of criminal motorcyclists who could hijack the cars of valuable individuals, perhaps kidnapping them for ransom.  The motorcycle fleet could just wait near the off-ramp of a major highway and harvest victims pretty much at will.

And hackers can always get in, no matter what type of security there is.  Every citadel has pipes coming in and going out — for water, sewage, trusted people, and other utilities.  All that’s necessary for entry is to compromise one of these pipes.  I’m reminded of how, despite the vast investment in the Great Wall, Genghis Khan was able to get through it simply by buying off one of the guards at the gate, allowing him to sack Beijing.

All this is not to say that I don’t want Google driving my car. And I work my office work while in the car that too without driver,   I still do.  But as I think through some of the scenarios that could play out in such a world, I hesitate ever so slightly.