ICT in Business - Cars without a driver heading for California!

Oh how it seemed like the future... a car with no driver. That was the premise behind Knight Rider, the old TV show which had KITT the car that could drive itself. Now however, fact looks like following fiction.

A new bill to bring driverless cars to roads in California has been signed. State governor Jerry Brown backed legislation on Tuesday, and said: "Today we're looking at science-fiction becoming tomorrow's reality".

The bill was signed at the headquarters of Google, which has been testing a fleet of 12 autonomous computer-controlled vehicles for several years, which some may have seen on Stephen Hawking's New World TV show.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin said self-driving cars would be "far safer" than those driven by humans.

Other major car manufacturers, including Audi, Ford and Volvo also have their own driverless car programmes!

How quickly they will become a mass market product and reach UK shores, who knows? But a driverless car that perhaps in future could be electric or run on solar power would transform the world as we know it.