5 Things Google's Director of Self-Driving Cars Has Learned So Far About the Vehicles

Spoiler: no release date has been set

The director of Google's self-driving cars unit says the vehicles have come a long way since the program started eight years ago, but that there's still no release date.

Speaking Friday, the first day of South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas, Chris Urmson said Google's autonomous cars have logged 1.4 million miles on roadways. And every week, they're going about 10,000 miles, nearly the distance a human driver travels in a year. However, they still have a long way to go: Google wants its cars to get to the point where they're better than human drivers.

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