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Sebastian Thrun helped build Google's amazing driverless car, powered by a very personal quest to save lives and reduce traffic accidents. Jawdropping video shows the DARPA Challenge-winning car motoring through busy city traffic with no one behind the wheel, and dramatic test drive footage from TED2011 demonstrates how fast the thing can really go. The Google Driverless Car is a project by Google that involves developing technology for driverless cars. The project is currently being led by Google engineer Sebastian Thrun, director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and co-inventor of Google Street View as part of F.A.T. GOLD: / Camera by members of FAT and Jonathan Minard Audi A7: Auto Pilot Car of the Future SUBSCRIBE HERE: Audi has progressed its driver assistance technology so far that you don't even need to be behind the wheel. What better way to terrify other road users than an unmanned car that can find and collect you with a single command from your smartphone? The autonomous A7, demonstrated at CES 2013, uses a range of cameras, sensors and network data to navigate unaccompanied from your garage to your current location without running anyone down. This prototype is the ultimate conclusion of the sophisticated and very real electronics that will be assisting Audi drivers this year. Wired.co.uk followed Audi to NAIAS (north American international motor show) to find out more. / Nik Miles takes a look at autonomous cars of the future. If you like this video please subscribe and then go to / You can also follow us Facebook at /... or on Twitter Griffith University students are using Smartphone technology to make the driverless car of the future more of a reality. A team of Information and Communications Technology students from the Gold Coast has won an award for designing a Smartphone Driven Automated Vehicle at the 2013 Queensland iAwards in Brisbane. The iAwards is Australia's premier technology awards program, aimed at recognising the contribution of information and communications technology. It also acknowledges the impact which the development and application of innovative technologies have here in Australia and globally. The winning team included Tommi Sullivan from the Bachelor of Information Tech (Honours), Michael Lennon from the Bachelor of Engineering in Mechatronic Engineering and Yukito Tsunoda from the Bachelor of Information Technology (Advanced Honours) in Computing and Intelligent Systems. They received the Undergraduate tertiary student prize for their projects, which they have been developing at Griffith's Robotics Lab under the supervision of Dr Jun Jo. Check out Griffith ICT ... Follow Griffith ICT on Facebook Griffith News story /... Vehicles that operate without a driver and allow passengers to safely use their mobile devices are being tested by the U.S. Department of Defense. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has created Boss, a Chevrolet Tahoe designed to drive itself. Boss is a robotic vehicle equipped with 25 lasers, cameras and radars to enable it to sense objects and know which direction to go in. The self-driving vehicle is scheduled to be tested in November during The Urban Challenge, a 100km course in which various robots race across a city or suburban environment. In addition to helping the military, General Motors officials expect this new technology to also play a future role in dangerous tasks such as mine-seeking. Autonomous cars are coming -- and they're going to drive better than you. Chris Gerdes reveals how he and his team are developing robotic race cars that can drive at 150 mph while avoiding every possible accident. And yet, in studying the brainwaves of professional racing drivers, Gerdes says he has gained a new appreciation for the instincts of professional drivers. (Filmed at TEDxStanford.) TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at /translate If you have questions or or