Geekologists can go rave about the ultimate auto-erotic car that drives itself. Google has made a startling revelation about a hush-hush self-driving car project. This car is not in the Minority Report future but has actually been tested on roads across California, and clocked up a few thousand miles . Knight Riders, tighten your seat belts.

For those of you who dab on lipstick or go BlackBerrying at the steering wheel , here is the spoiler alert, the car that allows you to multi-task with a vengeance will still take around eight years for tech implementation.

Hailing the car, Sebastian Thrun, Google engineer said that the car was for the “betterment of society”. Thrun is spearheading the Google car project and is the geek guru par excellence, who runs Stanford’s AI Labs, and Street View, the latter of which he co-invented.

NYT reports that the project is of an experimental nature and there are no plans yet for a full-fledged biz venture centred on the car.

As Google doodlers hyperventilate about a Total Recall car, CEO for innovationista Google, Eric Schmidt heightened anticipation with a speech that raved about “an augmented” variant of humanity that got its cars and comps to go-figure and work on autopilot. He said the future is about hassle-free computers to do-it-all, especially the things we do not excel at, “like driving cars”. Not everyone is a bad driver, Schmidt. So is this a sly teaser from Schmidt about a car with a HAL super comp brain? Wait up for F1 without drivers.

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