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  Google's Street View Takes on America's Gas Leaks

  Google Inc's Street View cars have captured the world's roads, highways and back alleys for years. Now they are being used for something entirely different: detecting the thousands of natural gas leaks blighting major US cities.

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  Look, No Hands! Test Driving a Google Car

  Google publicly disclosed its driverless car program in 2010, though it began the previous year. It's part of the company's "Google X" division, overseen directly by co-founder Sergey Brin and devoted to "moon shot" projects by the Internet company, as Dolgov puts it, that might take years, if ever, to bear fruit.

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  Google Self-Driving Car Coming Around the Corner

  Google used machine learning to teach cars how people drive and, from there, to anticipate what motorists in surrounding traffic are likely to do.

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  Google Building Self-Driving Cars With No Driver Seat, Steering Wheels

  The small electric cars, which seat two passengers, are currently prototypes that Google has been building through partnerships with automotive suppliers and manufacturers, Google co-founder Sergey Brin said at the Code conference in Southern California on Tuesday.

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  The New Fiat 500 Is A Google Car

  The Fiat 500 will be available in the UK, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands and Poland.

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  Google's Waymo Finds Solution To Save Pedestrians From Accident

  Waymo recently patented a car design in which the vehicle is held together internally with a number of "tension members".

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  Google's Waymo Adds 100 Chrysler Pacifica Minivans to Self-Driving Fleet

  The move came days after the announcements that Waymo would become an independent operating unit within Google's parent holding company Alphabet

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  Waymo Is Google's New Home for Its Self-Driving Car Ambitions

  The announcement marks a crucial step in the development of Google's high-profile program, now in its seventh year.

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  Google's Chris Urmson Quits Self-Driving Car Project

  Urmson, in a blog post late Friday, said he was "ready for a fresh challenge."

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  Google Executive Quits Self-Driving Car Project

  Chris Urmson, who was instrumental in building Google's self-driving car project, said he is leaving the team after seven and a half years.

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  Google Self-Driving Car Project Names General Counsel as Scrutiny Rises

  Google has logged more than 2.7 million kilometres of autonomous driving in testing in Texas, California, Arizona, and Washington state.

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  This Company Just Solved One of the Biggest Problems for Driverless Cars

  A British insurance company has begun offering a special policy designed for autonomous and partly automated vehicles.

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  A Self-Driving Car Will Be My Godsend

  Herbie is the name I am going to give our self-driving car. This stems from my fond memories of the film "The Love Bug."

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  Google to Open Detroit-Area Autonomous Car Centre

  The new self-driving car development centre in Novi, Michigan, will house engineers and others testing vehicles provided by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.

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  Ford Seeks Partnerships as It Looks Beyond Car-Making

  "You'll hear more from us as this year goes on," Chairman Bill Ford said, adding the company would consider acquisitions "if we thought that was the right way to go."