Google's self-driving cars  Google's latest experiment let's
Johnny 5 drive  Unless you’re Sir Alan Sugar, a Dragon or Lady
Penelope, it’s unlikely that you have your own private
chauffeur. That could be set to change however, as Google
continues its efforts for world domination by raising the
curtain on a previously secret research project; a car that
drives itself.  The search engine behemoth revealed that its
self-driven prototype has already clocked up over 140,000 miles
on the roads of California, which is a very promising figure
considering that not one crash has been reported.  The modified
Toyota Prius works its magic via the use of various cameras,
laser range finders and radar sensors to navigate roads and
obstacles. Couple these with the gargantuan amount of street
data locked away in Google’s vaults and the idea doesn’t sound
half as far-fetched does it?  Promising stuff, but fingers
crossed that the cars don’t become self-aware and drive us into
a wall as part of the inevitable robot uprising.  [