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Google's self-driving cars, of which there are usually a dozen on the roads of California and Nevada at any given time, have now logged 700,000 miles of awesome accident-free autonomous driving.

Google generated a lot of attention during the week when it gave the world a glimpse of the future, as only it can, this time with a new version of the company's long-gestating self-driving car.

What if it could be easier and safer for everyone to get around? To start, we're building a prototype vehicle that's designed to take you where you want to go at the push of a button-no driving required.

Google X Lab, sometimes known as Google X,[1] is a secret facility run by Google thought to be located somewhere in the Bay Area of Northern California.[2] Work at the lab is overseen by Sergey Brin, one of Google's co-founders.[3] Reportedly worked on at the lab is a list of 100 projects pertaining to future technologies such as a space elevator, self-driving car, augmented reality glasses, a neural network that uses semi-supervised learning, enabling speech recognition and extraction of objects from video - for instance detecting if a cat is in a frame of video,[4] and the Web of Things.[2]