Google might have just added a huge feature to Search. It's trying to make it conversational.

It's not every day you have to give way to a car that lacks a human driver.

The Google Self-driving car is one of those technologies that everyone knows will have a major impact on society but no one knows quite the when or how or, importantly, who. According to Elon Musk, he'd like Tesla Motors to be the "who."

Employees at Google may have just pulled off a prank that is simultaneously brilliant and visually horrifying after they apparently transformed their boss Sergey Brin's Tesla Model S into this pink eyelash-sporting Batmobile monstrosity you see here.

The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake devastated the town of Namie in Fukushima. The surviving residents still cannot return to their homes. The area has been evacuated due to radiation.

If you're here reading Jalopnik, you probably enjoy the act of driving more than just about anything else. But could our days behind the wheel really be numbered?

Sometimes Google's Street View cars return some pretty astounding pictures. Like yesterday when a picture appeared on Reddit of a donkey that commenters thought Google ran over and left for dead.

Google got approval to run its driverless cars within Nevada last year, but now the state has allowed Audi to run its driverless cars on the streets as well. This marks the first time an established carmaker has been given the authority to test its driverless cars on public roads.

Benjamin Sloss Treynor is the Vice President of Engineering at Google. He's smart. He's rich. And he loves cars.

Nevada has already started licensing driverless cars. California is right behind them, albeit with a few more caveats (big off switches, etc). This is just the beginning, of course. Driverless cars are absolutely coming, and in many ways this is the biggest advancement in motoring since the cupholder and 8-track…