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Last March, Derek Sine and I came across an unmarked Google Prius while exploring the Google Campus. At the time I thought it was a new Google Street View camera. So I submitted the photos to a few tech blogs and posted a blog post here. But it turns out five months later it was Google’s Automated Prius. Only if I knew that in March and apparently Google has quietly (at least until now) built up a small fleet of 7 Toyota Prius passenger cars and modified them to drive without the aid of human beings, but there will always be a human as shown in the video.  Google engineer Sebastian Thrun, who is heading up the automated vehicle project, says, “Our automated cars, manned by trained operators, just drove from our Mountain View campus to our Santa Monica office and on to Hollywood Boulevard. They’ve driven down Lombard Street, crossed the Golden Gate bridge, navigated the Pacific Coast Highway, and even made it all the way around Lake Tahoe. All in all, our self-driving cars have logged over 140,000 miles. We think this is a first in robotics research.”  Check out the video to see the car in action!

Last month was Cine Gear month at DV Culture with a total of 44 videos from the two day expo. Visit Cine Gear 2010′s Event Page on DV Culture for all the videos and photos.

Last Friday, I was in San Francisco at the Revision 5 Year Anniversary Party. It was great to meet up with some of the Revision3 crew and shoot interviews with many internet pioneers.  Visit DV Culture for complete video and photo coverage.

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