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Google self-driving car on shortlist for design of the year

Google's self driving car has made the shortlist for the London Design Museum's annual awards. The 2015 shortlist also features microchips that mimic human organs and a DIY coding kit.

A panel of judges chaired by artist Anish Kapoor will whittle down the list of 76 projects to winners in six categories and then pick one overall winner for design of the year. 

Google's self-driving car finds itself in the transport category, alongside the Tesla Model S electric sedan and the BMW i8 sports car. Judges praised Google for its "simple, friendly and practical" design, adding that the car also had "some surprises".

The awards are now in their eighth year and showcase projects in six categories: architecture, digital, fashion, product, graphics and transport. Technology features heavily throughout the shortlist, from 3D printed prosthetic limbs to coding and self-driving cars.

In the product category Human Organs-on-Chips, designed by Donald Ingber and Dan Donguen, used microchip manufacturing methods to create complex tissue structures lined with living human cells. The technique could accelerate drug discovery and decrease medical development costs.