Apparently it is known as the "Magic Roundabout" and is terrifying to drive. However, all my friends say after the first few times of driving through it, it actually works pretty well

Nice add-on spurge. That really clears up the 'how' questions in regards to the car traversing a drive thru.

When I first saw the title I was like "Ummm... what?" and then I was like "Ohhhh! Okay... I get it now..."
It would be pretty cool, I wouldn't trust it yet, it's still early but it is for sure a cool site to see! ^_^

Sorry, but I still don't think that is correct. I already knew the basics about the LIDAR tech from a TV program here in the UK 2-3 years ago (some university project I believe)... I was never saying it wouldn't be able to drive around a drive through, but that it won't understand certain differences in design. Yes it can 'see' the environment around it in 3D, and recognise road markings and other vehicles... But if there aren't any other vehicles or road markings for it to see, the only way for it to know which entrance to go to in many establishments is if it has been taught to do so by a real driver.

I would trust the car not to crash into anything more than I would trust myself, but without specific pre-progamming or some special indications it will not be able to cope in a lot of places where you are driving off the road network. Pre-programming could be driving the car through once to show it how, or perhaps some for of driver input like a touchscreen view of the cameras to be able to point the car to the correct entrance... or special indications would be signs that the LIDAR can read placed on all the relevant places to denote different types of entrance/exit. In some cases this might simply be to add road markings to match the main road network. And in the case of drive throughs there would need to be something it can recognise to tell it to stop at the order and/or collection area.

Portable Nintendo gaming console ? Haha

Really cool video though, that's a future I want to live in.

Oh you just mean literally stop at the correct spots. Yeah idk... maybe it was programmed to look for the correct large boxes/windows... but more than likely in this instance it was simply manually stopped by the passenger at the right spot.

However, in 10 years or less it will probably be perfected and that's when I can stop driving.

Indeed that is the type of thing I meant... though looking at the video there didn't seem to be much indication on the tarmac of the car park to tell the car which way to follow to get to the drive through area in the first place either. (There is a McDondalds drive through relatively near me that has a double entrance and double exit, each is split so that one half is to/from the car park and the other is to travel around the drive through... in that particular case it would be perfect for the google car as it is directed around the required route, so all it would need is GPS co-ordinates to determine which is the entrance (so it won't drive into the exit) and something to tell it to stop at the order and collection points and the car would be able to do everything by itself except place your order and eat your food... What I have been driving at (har har) is that it isn't always that simple at all drive throughs.