Google already drives most of our lives - well, our internet searches at least.

Now they’ve built a self-driving car without a steering wheel or any brake pedals.

Although this sounds like something out of Back To The Future II, it was in fact unveiled yesterday by Google CEO Sergey Brin in sunny California.

Sergey Bigwig tells us the cars have stop and go buttons but no controls at all. So far so fairground bumper car...

But the goal is for the cars is to be safer than human-driven cars with fewer crashes and less human error behind the wheel thanks to a very Googley solution: software.

Work on the search engine’s robo cars began in 2009 and today they can respond to a cyclist signalling across a lane, know the width of different streets and tell the difference between white and yellow road markings.

So if you find those London roundabouts a nightmare to navigate, Google’s driver-less cars could offer some reprieve.

So what other info do we know? Well, the cars will seat two people, be electric and have maximum speeds initially of 25mph.

Although snaps of the car show it looking a bit cartoon-like – it has no traditional bonnet, and the wheels are pushed to the corners - the makers describe it as a city car with a "friendly" face, designed to help people accept self-driving cars and reduce the risk of injury out on the road. The front's designed to be safer for pedestrians, with a soft foam-like material where a traditional bumper would be, and a more flexible windscreen. It looks like something from the futuristic world of the Jetsons. But it is pretty cute too.

Google unveils new driver-less car