By investigating driverless cars, Google is exploring an area that has tantalized automotive engineers for decades.
Thrun predicted that leaps in artificial intelligence would lead to driverless cars on the roads by 2030.
Even a devoted driving enthusiast like former General Motors vice chairman Bob Lutz concedes that driverless cars are the way of the future.
When driverless cars take the road, the most important road infrastructure will be the low-tech painted-on lane markers that provide critical visual information for the car's deep - learning software.
