Google’s Self-Driving Car Makes Its First Trip To Taco Bell

In 2010 Google announced that a self-driving car was in the works and while it sounded like something from the distant future, it’s here!

Steve Mahan is the first to test drive, (or not test drive, depending how you look at it) the car, and naturally, as he cruised around the streets of California his first thought was to get some tacos.

Mahan, who is 95 percent blind, took a ride in the new self-driving car alongside Morgan Hill Police Department Sergeant Troy Hoefling. After testing out a few stops and turns with the hands-free car, Taco Bell was the first official destination that Mahan visited with the new machine.

Google said it had safely completed over 200,000 miles of computer-led driving before letting it out into the wild. California doesn’t have any clear guidelines for self-driving cars, but Google said everything was legal.

While it was just an experiment, it’s one step closer to a new way of transportation and would be an amazing advancement for the Foodbeasts out there with a disability, who have dreamed of an automobile like this to help them get to their favorite restaurants and beyond.

This is pretty impressive, but I’m pretty sure Bruce Wayne invented this years ago.

Hopefully Google starts working on a car that can sync to your brain and order the tacos for you. Siri can’t even do that. (yet)

Hopefully you weren’t like me and realized that the narrator in the video was actually the audio describer, not a reporter. I didn’t realize this until he started describing the pictures at the end of the video.

[Thx HuffPost]