Wow that was quick - the Google car goes the next step

I have said in the past in this blog that the Google car is coming, I just didn't expect it to quite be speeding up this way.

It has been announced that Google will be producing a number of its own vehicles to up the number of prototypes on the road.

See.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/28/google-reveals-driverless-car-prototype

and...
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/28/google-self-driving-car-how-does-it-work


What I will emphasise is that the second article includes the following comment.

What about legislation?One of the biggest hold-ups to the progression of the technology onto the open road of Britain, the US, Australia and the rest of the world will be legislation.
A law was passed in California over a year ago that made the testing and operation of self-driving vehicles on roads possible, as long as they had manual override controls. The Department of Motor Vehicles in California is expected to issue regulations on the operation of self-driving cars soon, after which self-driving cars may become a bit more common place. 

However, there is still much to work out, primarily revolving around what a passenger in a self-driving car and can’t do – will they have to be able to take control at any moment, for instance – as well as questions around what happens when an accident happens, who is at fault and who pays.

In the age of disruptive innovation, policy and regulation velocity matters.