A step more: Google car (electric... and self-driving)

[Barbagris]

Goodbye steering wheel, goodbye pedals.

State of the prototype and final look:

First drive's (video):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqSDWoAhvLU

...We’re planning to build about a hundred prototype vehicles, and later this summer, our safety drivers will start testing early versions of these vehicles that have manual controls. If all goes well, we’d like to run a small pilot program here in California in the next couple of years...

http://googleblog.blogspot.com.es/2014/05/just-press-go-designing-self-driving.html

 

[fjpod]

I could see this as a cab in NYC.