Self-driving cars now legal in California - CNN.com

Gov. Jerry Brown signs a bill that will regulate self-driving cars in California Google co-founder Sergey Brin hopes to have self-driving cars on public roads within five years Brin says self-driving cars address safety, traffic and lifestyle issues Gov. Jerry Brown signs a bill that will regulate self-driving cars in California California is the latest state to allow testing of Google's self-driving cars on the roads, though only with a human passenger along as a safety measure. Gov. Edmund "Jerry" Brown signed the autonomous-vehicles bill into law Tuesday afternoon alongside Google co-founder Sergey Brin and State Sen. Alex Padilla, who authored the bill, at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California. The bill, SB 1298, will set up procedures and requirements for determining when the cars are road-ready. Brin hopes that self-driving cars will be able to drive on public streets in five years or less. "Anybody who first gets in the car and finds the car is driving will be a little skittish. But they'll get over it," said Brown when asked if the California Highway Patrol was on board with the plan.