Austin may be fertile ground for Google test: City is already a leader in mobility movement

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Google's self-driving cars aren't yet ready to hit the road as robotic taxis. But the rapid rollout of prototypes this summer for testing in Austin, Texas, suggests that the company may be zeroing in on a city for when that day arrives. Google, which now operates under a holding company called Alphabet Inc., sent an experimental self-driving car to Austin in early July. It was the first extended trip outside California for one of Google's cars, which have now logged 1.2 million miles in autonomous mode since the project began in 2009.