News out yesterday was that bans on texting aren't reducing car accidents. Well, luckily, Google CEO Eric Schmidt has the answer: computers should drive the cars.

Aside from that odd sci-fi tangent, Schmidt spoke yesterday at the TechCrunch Disrupt event about where mobile and search is heading in the near future at Google. His big concept was permission-based autonomous search.

"Based on history, as you walk down street. Tell me things that I don't know. Tell me things I would be interested in. Think of it as a serendipity engine. Think of it as a new way of thinking about traditional text search."

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