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May 28, 2014, 9:00 AM    Last updated: Wednesday, May 28, 2014, 9:01 AM
The Associated Press
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LOS ANGELES - Google will build a car without a steering wheel.

Uncredited
This image provided by Google shows a very early version of Google's prototype
self-driving car. The two-seater won't be sold publicly, but Google on 
Tuesday,
May 27, 2014 said it hopes by this time next year, 100 prototypes will be on
public roads. (AP Photo/Google) It doesn't need one because it drives itself.
The two-seater won't be sold publicly, but Google said Tuesday it hopes by 
this
time next year, 100 prototypes will be on public roads. Though not driving 
very
quickly - the top speed would be 25 mph.
The cars are a natural next step for Google, which already has driven hundreds
of thousands of miles in California with Lexus SUVs and Toyota Priuses 
outfitted
with a combination of sensors and computers.
Those cars have Google-employed "safety drivers" behind the wheel in case of
emergency. The new cars would eliminate the driver from the task of driving.
No steering wheel, no brake and gas pedals. Instead, buttons for go and stop.
"It reminded me of catching a chairlift by yourself, a bit of solitude I found
really enjoyable," Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, told a Southern 
California
tech conference Tuesday evening of his first ride, according to a transcript.
The electric-powered car is compact and bubble-shaped - something that might
move people around a corporate campus or congested downtown.
Google is unlikely to go deeply into auto manufacturing. In unveiling the
prototype, the company emphasized partnering with other firms.
The biggest obstacle could be the law.
Test versions will have a wheel and pedals, because they must under California
regulations.
Google hopes to build the 100 prototypes late this year or early next and use
them in a to-be-determined "pilot program," spokeswoman Courtney Hohne said.
Meanwhile, by the end of this year, California's Department of Motor Vehicles
must write regulations for the "operational" use of truly driverless cars.
The DMV had thought that reality was several years away, so it would have time
to perfect the rules.
That clock just sped up, said the head of the DMV's driverless car program,
Bernard Soriano.
"Because of what is potentially out there soon, we need to make sure that the
regulations are in place that would keep the public safe but would not impede
progress," Soriano said.
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