Consider this scene at a California state college campus:

The Guardian reports.

Self-driving cars coming to a college campus near you as price of tech drops

A futuristic-looking golf cart rolls towards a student walking with her books. When it gets near, it stops on its own, then Brandon Moak leans out and says, “Would you like a ride in a self-driving vehicle?”

Moak doesn’t work for Google or Tesla or any of the other research labs started by major automakers. Last year, he and some friends dropped out of the University of Waterloo and started Varden Labs, an automated vehicle startup based out of a rented house just north of San Jose. This spring, the company started loaning the vehicle to various college campuses around the state to give undergrads a ride to class.

It doesn’t go very fast and, therefore, doesn’t have to predict how it will drive very far down the road, unlike Google cars cruising at highway speeds. As it moves down a thoroughfare at California State University Sacramento it stops and starts often and the steering system is constantly adjusting itself.