Apparently, Google has been secretly making cars that drive themselves. They have logged over 140,000 miles of self-navigation and over 1,000 miles of navigation entirely free of human intervention, all on regular roads, including travels on highways, regular streets, and even down the famously twisty hills of Lombard St. in San Francisco.

The New York Times says that the most optimistic estimates are that this technology is eight years from market. I say it can’t come soon enough – it feels as I’ve been waiting for this for decades. Still, it’s pretty astounding to think that even with an almost doubled estimate of this technology’s availability, most of our current Concord kids might never need a driver’s license.