text: Lastly, is the cars assisting or are you driving? Sebastian Thrun the founder of the Google Car project, believes that the technology has finally begun to catch up the the dream. In the driverless car do you think that you are driving or is it assisting you while you drive the car. I think that the car is assisting you because why would it be called the "driverless" car. In 2013, BMW announced the development of "Traffic Jam Assistant." Basically what it is that they can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves.