---
title: "Google self-driving car prototype ready to try road"
description: "Google on Monday announced that the first completed prototype of its self-driving car is ready to be road tested."
date: "2014-12-23"
modified: "2015-08-13"
authors:
  - name: "Alex Klokus"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/alex-klokus"
url: "https://futurism.com/google-self-driving-car-prototype-ready-to-try-road"
categories:
  - "Advanced Transport"
  - "Artificial Intelligence"
  - "Google"
  - "Self-Driving Vehicles"
tags:
  - "transport"
---

# Google self-driving car prototype ready to try road

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- The prototype is a manifestation of plans that California-based Google revealed in May to build its own autonomous car minus typical features such as steering wheels
- For Google, the car marks a shift away from adapting vehicles made by others in its quest to pioneer individual transport that needs only a stop-and-go function.
- Google said early this year that the top speed of the battery-powered prototypes will be 25 miles (40 kilometers) per hour

### Author social links  
[LinkedIn](<https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexklokus>)