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Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Would You Like To Test Drive The Google's Self Driving Car?


Tech giant GOOGLE will start testing its driver-less car on public roads, as per the sources. The car will have a steering wheel and brakes, which were not part described by Google an year ago.


Safety drivers will be on-board the vehicles, complete with removable steering wheel and pedals to take control should the cars run into trouble, but once development is complete Google says the pod-like vehicles will not have any conventional controls at all, apart from an on/off button.

The Google cars will be driving on public roads around the Mountain View area of California, close to Google's headquarters, and will have their top speed limited to 25 miles per hour. Google's cars will use the same software fitted to its fleet of self-driving Lexus RX450h SUVs, which has covered one million miles and is currently driving 10,000 autonomous miles every week. 

A Google Driver-Less Car Prototype


 

The company recently revealed that its fleet of self-driving Lexus cars have been involved in a total of 11 accidents on California roads, but says that they were all minor and none were the fault of the cars.

The search giant added that, in the coming years, it would "like to run small pilot programmes with our prototypes to learn what people would like to do with vehicles like this." The general perspective from the automotive and computer industries is that entirely self-driving cars will act as shuttles in pedestrianized areas and for specific purposes, rather than replacing conventional cars entirely.

Google's goal is to use its self-driving vehicles to take passengers from A to B "at the push of a button," reduce the 94% of road accidents which are caused by human error, and "reclaim billions of hours wasted in traffic," as well as provide personal transport for those who cannot drive.

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