The goal of Google's self-driving car project, on the other hand, is to give customers a personal chauffeur, and Google's robotic cars have already logged a reported 140,000 self-driven miles. Google's cars aren't quite ready for primetime, though, and one of its cars was even involved in a minor fender-bender last August (Google claims the crash occurred while the car was in manual mode, but has not yet released the full details of the accident).
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