Google brings self-driving cars to Phoenix area

Self-driving cars may be coming sooner than you think! Google has expanded their testing program to Phoenix! Rob Smith (@robsmithonline) fills you in on all the new developments. In this May 13, 2015, file photo, Google's self-driving Lexus car drives along the street during a demonstration at the Google campus in Mountain View, Calif. The company is now testing self-driving cars in the metro Phoenix area. PHOENIX -- Google has brought its self-driving vehicles to the Phoenix area to see how the technology performs amid crippling summer heat and, if researchers are lucky, a giant dust storm or two.