"At a minimum, the documents show a pretty cozy relationship between Google and the Department of Transportation, as well as the White House," said Anne Weismann, the executive director of the Campaign for Accountability. "Google, it appears, had a lot of input into how the federal government was going to deal with driverless cars. I don't think there's necessarily anything suspicious or improper about that, but there's a fine line." The fine line Weismann describes has to do with navigating corporate and public interests as they pertain to technology that promises to transform cities, decimate and create entire industries, and save tens of millions of lives this century. It's natural that federal officials have turned to Google to educate themselves on this technology.