Google guru eyes self-driving cars

Self-driving cars – a very cool idea, but if you attended the 1964 New York World's Fair – Cars should be flying by now. I agree with Schmidt that the proof is in the data – And every organization public, private and person has mountains of data that if correctly aggregated and deciphered - can provide policy makers with the correct questions they need to answer (problems they should fix), and the best answers to address those questions. If you're a geek and haven't heard of Apache Hadoop take a look --

It's all about the data!

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Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt envisions an explosion of “big data” and the simplification of powerful technology changing the world, from the spread of democracy to the introduction of self-driving cars.

He said the availability of huge sets of data, and algorithms to make sense of them, leads to possibilities like self-driving cars, one of Google’s side projects.

Schmidt called for citizens to demand its leaders to use such data when making policy decisions about issues like global warming.

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