A Smart car is already fairly close to the pod concept in terms of form factor.  Google Pods biggest difference is moving the seats further back. IMO, if Google get&#x27;s the software down most company&#x27;s could put out a self driving car within 1 or 2 model years.  However, people are going to take much longer before people are going to take much longer before buying cars that can&#x27;t be driven.