Items tagged with self driving cars
Waymo, a division of Google's parent company Alphabet, continues to accelerate its self-driving car efforts by racking up millions of miles on public roads. The official tally now stands at 4 million miles, of which 1 million of those were accumulated in the past six months alone. In the early going, it took a full 18 months for Waymo to log its first million miles. All of this experience adds up and is crucial to making autonomous vehicles safe for everyday use. Image Source: Waymo "With these 4 million miles of experience, we’ve been able to focus on varied and complex driving scenarios. For every situation we encounter on the road, we’re able to amplify and multiply the experience...
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While Google and other companies work to improve autonomous vehicle technologies, legislatures and lawmakers are busy adopting rules and regulations to ensure that testing self-driving cars is a safe endeavor. Be that as it may, the one inescapable reality is that at some point, there's going to be a fatality involved. "There is no question that someone is going to die in this technology," Missy Cummings, a roboticist and associate professor at Duke University, stated in testimony to the U.S. Senate committee on commerce, science, and transportation. "The question is when and what can we do to minimize that." Lawmakers are intent on laying out a set of universal standards for self-driving cars,...
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It would appear that one of Google's self-driving cars was involved in an accident that's not the fault of the other driver, tarnishing what's been a blame-free driving record up to this point. Based on a police report posted to California's Department of Motor Vehicles, the incident involved one of Google's Lexus models and a public bus.The report states that Google's vehicle was traveling in autonomous mode headed east in the far right lane on El Camino Real in Mountain View. As the vehicle approached an intersection, it signaled its intention to turn right and then moved into the right-hand side of the lane to pass traffic. The vehicle then encountered sandbags in the road that it attempted...
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