Google brings its driverless car to Austin – Austin American-Statesman

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By Austin Post Staff / Feb 19, 2013

There’s a driverless vehicle in town. No, we’re not talking about the Legislature. Ba-dum-bump.

Google, which has been developing and touting the future of self-piloting cars, has parked a driverless car in front of the Hilton Hotel downtown, site of the three-day Texas Transportation Forum. The modified Lexus hybrid is equipped with all manner of sensors that allow it to be aware of everything occurring around it and instantly react to those obstacles. The most noticable of those features is a rotating laser radar device, mounted on a frame on the car’s roof, that generates a detailed three-dimensional map of its environment.

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