Google’s self-driving car project is ambitious at heart–working with DARPA, Google is aiming to cut the number of traffic-related fatalities by as much as half, saving fuel along the way. But the badassery of the project has been kept largely under wraps until now: This video comes from a demonstration at a TED conference, and we can see that Google’s robot drivers have the cold, steel heart of a rally driver.

– Popsci