What do you get when a couple dozen former Google, Apple, and Tesla employees get together? A startup called Otto -- quite possibly the most disruptive tech since the Internet.
The federal government just handed Google a huge win for ambitions to expand the reach of its autonomous vehicles. The U.S. government's traffic safety regulator has said it will consider Google's self-driving car a "driver" under federal law.
Secretary of Transportation (DOT) Anthony Foxx made an appearance at the auto show in Detroit, flanked by representatives from Ford, Delphi, and Google, to announce details of a $4 billion federal initiative to help usher in autonomous cars.
