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Nevada Approves Rules for Self-Driving Cars
As lotp was saying a week or two ago...Nevada has become the first state in the country to approve regulations that will allow self-driving vehicles on the road in that state. Why does it have to be Google? has been working on an autonomous car for a couple of years. Back in 2010, it first gave the public a peak at a Toyota Prius it modified with lasers (mounted on the car) and computers. That technology delivered data to the driving system so it computed the speed, direction etc. of the car. In Googles car, theres a person in the driver seat or front passenger seat, but they are not controlling the car. Since then Google has worked with the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles, automakers, insurance companies and others to develop regulations for self-driving cars. These are the rules for companies to test autonomous cars in Nevada and for general public use. Nevada's a good place to start - for much of the state cruise control and good wheel alignment can let your car self-drive. Then you run into a mountain range. Or even another vehicle once in a while. Google has already logged thousands of miles testing self-driving cars. CEO Sergey Brin has said he wants the Google autonomous test car to log a million miles without an accident. Posted by: Glenmore 2012-02-20 |
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