Google Self-Driving Car Project

Abstract

This month we spent a lot of time in Austin, both on the roads and hosting community meetings to help people learn more about our project. Last weekend we hosted an open house at Austin’s Thinkery , a museum of science for kids; it’s in an area where we’ve been self-driving our Lexus vehicles. We had both a Lexus and a prototype on display, and Mayor of Austin Steve Adler announced that a few more of our prototype vehicles will be arriving in early September so we can start testing them (with test drivers aboard) in the coming weeks. Our favorite part of the weekend: hearing kids shout out their ideas for what our prototype looks like...an owl, an egg, a turtle, and “the future!”