text: If these are self driving cars why must the driver or rider still be fully aware of the surrounding objects and traffic? If they had to state this why should this be allowed on the streets at all. This is a great idea and it's claims of helping our enviroment by using half the fuel the taxi's use would be a huge technological impact on our entire species' carbon footprint on our planet. But also what Google should deam the most important features of this product is it's saftey to passengers and to the vehicles surrounding it.