The self-driving car is ready for prime time, but you still can't have one

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA — Google — or as co-founder Sergey Brin put it, "Google, ah, sorry, I mean Alphabet" — held a thoroughly fascinating event for a small gathering of press here at the Googleplex Tuesday. Brin and his team showed off the latest data from the company's formerly secretive self-driving car project. We got to take rides in two self-driving prototypes: the familiar small box above and a beautiful Lexus model

Everything we saw told us the Google car is astonishingly advanced, alert to all possible dangers with an insanely detailed awareness of its surroundings, and way better than you pathetic humans at driving in general. It will free up whole new vistas of time in your life, give you more energy when you get home, and give your elderly and disabled friends a whole new lease on mobility Read more...