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" It&amp;#039;s no secret that Google wants to break the mold in our everyday lives. They&amp;#039;ve photographed the most difficult-to-navigate streets to create a super-helpful mapping system, put the future of smart devices right on our faces, and now they&amp;#039;re taking a crack at how most Americans get around each day: the car. For the last few years Google has been experimenting with self-driving technology, and yesterday the company revealed a prototype of their much-anticipated vehicle. With no steering wheel, accelerator or brake, all you&amp;#039;ll find in the car is two seats, buttons to start and stop, and a screen showing the route.  They even let a few people take a test ride. It&amp;#039;s fun to watch them experience something entirely new for the first time (and we chuckled at the rider who quipped that the car drives better than her husband!).      Google has big dreams for the car: Think increased mobility for the disabled or blind, a cure for distracted driving, and a chance to reclaim time lost on long commutes. (Wouldn&amp;#039;t you love that time back to chat with an old friend? Or read that book that&amp;#039;s been on your list for months? Sigh.) Rachel Rothman, the Technical and Engineering Director in the Good Housekeeping Research Institute, says she can&amp;#039;t wait for the day when driving isn&amp;#039;t just about getting from point A to point B, but what you can do and enjoy along the way. For now, the company plans to create about 100 of these prototypes and test them more thoroughly over the next couple years, so don&amp;#039;t expect to park one in your driveway quite yet. We&amp;#039;re guessing there&amp;#039;s a long list of safety trials and regulatory hurdles they&amp;#039;ll need to clear before we see these on the road. But until then, it&amp;#039;s just fun to imagine a future that might actually let us sit back and enjoy the ride. (And in the meantime we&amp;#039;re still testing cars you can buy. Stay tuned for more information on that front, but check out a sneak peek on Instagram now.) TELL US: Would you take a ride in a self-driving car? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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