The auto was driving along El Camino real, Mountain View, CA on a 24-mile-an-hour (38 kilometer-per-hour) speed.
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Police give out traffic tickets on a daily basis, however, on Thursday, California police in Mountain View made a traffic stop involving a Google driverless auto for going too slow, causing a traffic jam.
“Bet humans don’t get pulled over for that too often”, Google joked in the Google+ post. The vehicle was stopped because it was going 24 miles per hour in a 35 mile per hour area. The Google Autonomous Vehicle (Google AV) was travelling at 24mph (39Km/h) in a 35mph (56Km/h) zone.
But that is no surprise since Google has already set a speed limit of 25mph for its current batch of self-driving cars.
In a Google Plus post, the Google Self-Driving auto Project pled guilty to slow driving.
Analysts like Donald Norman who is the Director of the Design Lab at the University of California, San Diego say the real problem with automated vehicles is that they are too safe. However, the operators of the driverless vehicle were not given a citation after police pulled the vehicle over and contacted them.
The Mountain View Police Department said in a blog post that it meets regularly with Google to make sure their cars operate safely in the community. The North American company claims that the vehicle is meant to appear “friendly and approachable” in the streets where it is allowed to travel.
“After 1.2 million miles of autonomous driving – the human equivalent of 90 years of driving experience, we’re proud to say we’ve never been ticketed!” the auto project posted.
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Researchers in the field have acknowledged that getting autonomous cars to work well in the world of human drivers is one of their biggest challenges.
