Google leads self-driving car revolution

A Google driverless car at Google headquarters in Silicon Valley

Google has the largest known test fleet of self-driving cars. Long dismissed as a utopian pipe dream, self-driving cars are rapidly reaching the stage where they will be ready for the market, reports SPIEGEL. "We're not talking about 20 years here, but more like five," says Sebastian Thrun, the leading advocate and director of Google's project. Read more