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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Woohoo! Excellent, Smithers…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:22.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Self-driving cars now legal in California</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/25/tech/innovation/self-driving-car-california/index.html?hpt=hp_t1">http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/25/tech/innovation/self-driving-car-california/index.html?hpt=hp_t1</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.25pt;background:white'><strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>(CNN)</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> -- California is the latest state to allow testing of Google's self-driving cars on the roads, though only with a human passenger along as a safety measure.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhff_daphsQ&list=LEK8sQmJBp8GCxrOtXWBpyEAU&index=0&feature=plcp">Gov. Edmund "Jerry" Brown signed the autonomous-vehicles bill into law</a> Tuesday afternoon alongside Google co-founder Sergey Brin and State Sen. Alex Padilla, who authored the bill, at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California. The bill, SB 1298, will set up procedures and requirements for determining when the cars are road-ready…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>