Autonomous driving tech has come a long way since the first time we saw the fruits of Google's labor , and a partnership with Chrysler indicates it has entered a much more practical phase of development. Urmson joined Google after working on self-driving tech at Carnegie Mellon to win DARPA challenges , and watched the project go from a goal of 100,000 miles self-driven to completing 1.8 million miles (with a few accidents, usually caused by human drivers). There's no indication on what's next, but he says "If I can find another project that turns into an obsession and becomes something more, I will consider myself twice lucky."