Google wants the freedom to give the public access to self-driving cars it
has been testing on public roads since the summer. Google car that drives
itself around city streets had a brush with the law for driving too slowly.
A police officer in the Silicon Valley pulled over the prototype car on
Thursday because it was going in a Speed of 38.4km/h in a 56km/h.
The officer spoke with the person in the driver’s seat but issued no
citation, according to the Mountain View Police Department. Though the car was
driving itself, state law requires a person to be able to intervene when the
technology is tested on public roads.
The officer wanted to “learn more about how the car was choosing speeds
along certain roadways and to educate the operators about impeding traffic,”
according to a department blog post.
The car is bubble-shaped and has two seats. The Highest speed of the
prototype car is 40km/h.
“Driving too slowly? Bet humans don’t get pulled over for that too often,”
Google’s self-driving car project wrote in a blog post. It said the cars —
outfitted with high-tech sensors and computing power — have never received a
ticket.
According to Reports Google testing its others self-driving cars on roads
and highways in US California.
And unfortunately
these cars faced more than 15 minor collisions from the past 5 years.
Representatives of Google’s self-driving car project have said that in
recent months they’ve been trying to program the vehicles to drive less like
robots and more like people — in part to reduce the number of times they are
hit by other drivers expecting certain driving behavior.
Police say they regularly meet with the tech giant to make sure the vehicles
are operating safely.
