Google Goes Driverless
Google has tested their driverless car for over 140,000 miles, but some are still skeptical. Google recently told fans and the press that it has been working on driverless cars for some time now, logging over 140,000 miles on test tracks.
For now, the cost of such a vehicle is not very economical, but it proves one solid fact – the technology exists. Google’s auto-car could have a huge impact on the tech of traveling.
According to Google & Gas2 – The Google cars use computer A.I., cameras, lasers, and GPS devices to figure out where to go, how fast to go, and where other cars are. So far Google says there has been just one accident from its fleet of seven cars… when somebody else rear-ended a Google driverless car. That is pretty impressive, and a computer would be better able to optimize travel speed for fuel efficiency, timing, and could better account for things like traffic while the human passenger can be as distracted as he or she wants.
Getting these cars off the ground could pose an issue – many have their own misgivings about trusting a car to deliver them safely so, and manual override systems will be a must. And then there’s cost. While Google hasn’t said what all this technology costs, it won’t be cheap at first.
But driverless cars ARE possible in our lifetime, and we may one day find ourselves riding passenger to the empty driver’s seat.
Source: gas2.org
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