The long-awaited technology everyone has craved since James Bond and Michael Knight made driverless cars cool is taking some revolutionary steps in Northern California with the introduction of a driverless shuttle.

These electric vehicles — known as EZ10 and created by EasyMile — use lasers, GPS navigation and sensors to make their way along short distances and predefined routes with no driver and no steering wheel.

They were successfully tested in an office park in the Bay Area city of San Ramon on Monday. The company which runs the office park plans to use them to shuttle employees from building to building by the end of the year, according to the East Bay Times.

Check out this video of the shuttle posted by the San Ramon Police Department.

The buses cost about $250,000 each and have room for six people to sit and six people to stand. Though the tests were safely done in a parking lot, the company will apply for a permit from the Department of Motor Vehicles to officially run them on the street by the end of the year.

New legislation passed in the state of California last year allows automakers to test cars with no human drivers on some public roads, and the French company that makes the EZ10 is taking advantage of that this year. The legislation is specific to just a few areas and one of them is San Ramon.

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Would you feel comfortable riding in a driverless shuttle? How about sharing the road with one?

Here’s what the San Ramon Police Department thought after some of its officers took a ride.

https://twitter.com/sanramonpolice/status/838837909646028800

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