<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5fd399f9-d554-4a7e-a15a-3558b33b92f5/74F48DCD-BCF1-4039-8D6C-5A4E36E6E739/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6906162.stm" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6906162.stm" style="font-size: 11px;">news.bbc.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6906162.stm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.bbc.co.uk/img/4109DBAE-072C-49E5-99AC-CB09F3CFCA24" alt="Driverless car" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6906162.stm">This car can drive itself from A to B</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6906162.stm"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD class="sibtbg"><DIV class="o"> <IMG width="203" vspace="0" hspace="0" height="152" border="0" alt="Driverless car" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44007000/jpg/_44007980_car203.jpg" /> </DIV> <DIV class="mva"> No-one at the wheel</DIV> <DIV class="o"> <IMG width="203" vspace="2" hspace="0" height="1" border="0" alt="" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/v3/inline_dashed_line.gif" /> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV class="mvtb"> <A href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_6900000/newsid_6905700?redirect=6905700.stm&news=1&nbwm=1&bbram=1&bbwm=1&nbram=1"> <IMG vspace="0" height="13" border="0" align="left" alt="" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/v3/icons/video_text.gif" /><B>The car in action</B> </A> </DIV> </DIV> </TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6906162.stm"><FONT size="2"> <TABLE width="208" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="right"><TBODY><TR><TD width="5"><IMG width="5" vspace="0" hspace="0" height="1" border="0" alt="" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/shared/img/o.gif" /></TD><TD class="sibtbg"><DIV> <DIV class="mva"> <IMG width="24" height="13" border="0" alt="" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/v3/start_quote_rb.gif" /> <B>You might buy a car that has a special button called an 'auto-chauffeur' button. You push it and it drives you home and wakes you up in your garage</B> <IMG width="23" vspace="0" height="13" border="0" align="right" alt="" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/v3/end_quote_rb.gif" /><BR clear="all" /> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV class="mva"> <DIV>Sebastian Thrun</DIV> </DIV> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>"How have you convinced yourself that human driving is safe?" says Stanford artificial intelligence expert Professor Sebastian Thrun. "We kill about a million people a year around the globe. Almost every loss of life is a result of human error. Statistics will tell us the truth, that these cars are more reliable than human driving." </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6906162.stm"><FONT size="2">A future where your car is an obedient pet sounds fantastic. Unless you're the law firm of a motor manufacturer. Imagine if the auto-driver fails, and there's injury or death. Instead of the driver getting sued, the car company is in the dock. 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