We live in the future. Carbots are driving in traffic (on 1, 101 - binary coincidence?) http://nyti.ms/cXgLuv longurl: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/science/10google.html - "years from mass production" but another example of the SF Bay Area being a time-distortion-bubble about 10-15 years ahead of the rest of the country.