Google's Self-Driving Cars Have Clocked 2 Million Miles

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(Narrator) At this point, self driving cars are

a pretty common sight in Mountainview, California.

After all, Google's been working on the technology

since 2009, and this week it's fleet of nearly 60

autonomous cars hit a milestone.

They have now clocked more than two million miles

of autonomous driving on public streets.

The tech giants still won't say when its cars will be ready

or how they'll be used, but the two million mark is

a reminder that while lots of players have run onto

the field, Google is still the veteran.

Its car sees the world with a combination of cameras,

radar, and laser sensors, but the real work is building

the software that translates that information

into the way it drives, and that's where

real world experience is crucial.

When I rode an Uber self-driving car last month

in Pittsburgh, the human engineer had

to take over a few times.

In 30 minutes of driving around Mountainview, Google's car

did every moment of the driving.

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(Narrator) Yes, the suburb is a simpler environment

than the city of bridges, but minus a few moments

of jerky braking, Google's car really rivals

an experienced human.

Okay, so we don't know how the tech giant is going

to bring this technology to customers, but sitting behind

what future generations will remember as the driver's seat,

I'm already losing sight of who's in control.