Too bad this is a fanboy article rather than real journalism. If the car only gets up to 25 mph, it is impeding traffic on the many roads in MV that are 35 mph and faster.

And all those stops for things that NO human would ever stop for also impede traffic, and risks causing accidents from human drivers trying to avoid the idiot self-drive behavior.

The accident rate for Google cars is HIGHER than the nationwide rate for all age categories except seniors. And those national averages include lots of freeway and high-density city traffic, not just tooling around on the wide, safe and simple streets of Mountain View.

Google is trying to do a good thing - but it is not there yet, and it's imposing costs and hassles on MV residents. Go drive those cars in SF and leave us ALONE.

This Cuesta Park resident LOVES seeing them and hopes for more and more to be added in the years ahead.
I guess people have different views. That's a revelation eh?

I nearly rear-ended a self-driving car this morning...as it stopped before BOTH unoccupied crosswalks at either side of an intersection. Not at all sure how you program for no pedestrians in a crosswalk, but no human being would have stopped even once, never mind twice. Slow down to assess? Yes. Stop? Heck no. This creates a hazard for "manned" vehicles that don't think like machines.