i started working at google last week on self driving car research.
[{"role": "system", "content": "An autonomous car (also known as a driverless car, self-driving car, robotic car) and unmanned ground vehicle is a vehicle that is capable of sensing its environment and navigating without human input. Autonomous cars use a variety of techniques to detect their surroundings, such as radar, laser light, GPS, odometry and computer vision. Advanced control systems interpret sensory information to identify appropriate navigation paths, as well as obstacles and relevant signage. Autonomous cars must have control systems that are capable of analyzing sensory data to distinguish between different cars on the road. The potential benefits of autonomous cars include reduced mobility and infrastructure costs, increased safety, increased mobility, increased customer satisfaction and reduced crime. Specifically a significant reduction in traffic collisions; the resulting injuries; and related costs, including less need for insurance. Autonomous cars are predicted to increase traffic flow; provide enhanced mobility for children, the elderly, disabled and the poor; relieve travelers from driving and navigation chores; lower fuel consumption; significantly reduce needs for parking space; reduce crime; and facilitate business models for transportation as a service, especially via the sharing economy.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Do you know much about autonomous cars? I'm not familiar with the concept very well."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I know some about them.  They are driverless cars, basically sensing things around them and driving without help from humans"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That sounds dangerous to me! lol I can't sharing the road with a driverless car."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "They have some benefits.  Reduced manufacturing costs, reduced collisions, and reduced injury. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "Are there currently any of these vehicles in production or is it just a concept idea?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Audi is working on one.  They are a german manufactuerer that specializes in luxury cars"}, {"role": "user", "content": "So this could soon be a reality! Wow! Who came up with this idea?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I am not sure.  But it plans to decrease fuel consumption, reduce stress on drivers and increase flow of traffic"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Does the vehicle have the ability to react to dangerous situations?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It does, it has radar, computer vision and GPS to check out its surroundings"}]