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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