Silicon Valley and Detroit reinvent the car

Google's cutting edge self-driving car technology has thoroughly disrupted the auto industry worldwide. The race is on to develop the car of the future and the carmakers in Detroit, in particular, do not want to be left behind.

Detroit has its guard up, like an anxious, aging prizefighter. They want to avoid a knockout punch after suffering a devastating knockdown at the hands of the upstart Japanese automakers years ago when they ate Detroit's lunch with the introduction of maintenance and fuel efficient cars.

Self-driving cars are part of an automotive revolution that may be the most transformative since Henry Ford's assembly line, reports Forbes. Read more

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