Google targets huge population of over 70s in America for self-drive cars

Florence Swanson has lived through every American car from the Ford Model T to the Tesla Model. Now, at 94, she has stepped into what Google hopes will be the automotive future — self-driving vehicles.

After her painting of a guitar player won a Google contest, she became the oldest person yet to ride in a model with the company’s autonomous technology.

“You haven’t lived until you get in one of those cars,” the Austin, Texas, resident said of her half-hour excursion.