Google: Autonomous cars since almost 500,000 miles without an accident
Google runs a successful interim results for its self-driving cars: According to an entry in the official blog, the autonomous vehicles are well after 300,000 miles (480,000 kilometers) of road traffic accidents completely free.
About a dozen vehicles are regularly according to Google on the way and have obtained a variety of traffic situations mastered. However, the need to prove since May 2012 officially approved in the U.S. car still further in difficult situations, such as snow-covered roads or construction sites with temporary traffic signals. Next step is also possible that the test drivers only drive alone instead of the previous two with the cars and use them mainly for everyday trips such as commuting. If every tester remain on the driver's seat, as necessary, to intervene.
The collision, in which one of the robot car was involved in 2011 mentions Google in its interim results, however. At that time, a modified Toyota Prius have ascended so hard on the vehicle ahead, that it catapulted a third car into another vehicle. A company spokesman said at the time, however, that the human driver had the time of the accident, the control of the vehicle. In 2010, Google had begun to test the computer-controlled cars
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