Friday, 15 May 2015

Google’s self-driving car is hitting public roads this summer

Post from http://www.danieluk.net

Google’s own self-driving car is almost ready to be tested on public roads. In a blog post, project director Chris Urmson says that a few of the prototype vehicles will drive around Mountain View, California, where the company is based. Safety drivers will accompany the cars, which will be capped at 25mph. Unlike Google’s ultimate vision for the vehicles, these cars will come with a removable steering wheel, accelerator pedal, and brake pedal.


The prototypes will be running the same software as used by Google’s self-driving Lexus RX450h fleet, which formed the basis of the company’s research before it announced an entirely original car. Google says that the fleet has logged almost a million miles on the road, or what Urmson…


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