No driver? No ticket-That, at least, was the result when a police officer pulled over one of Google’s self-driving cars Thursday in Mountain View, California. The auto was stopped for driving too slow. The vehicle was reportedly going slow enough to back up traffic behind it. Although it was travelling in a 35 miles per hour zone, the auto was driving extremely cautiously at 24 miles per hour, mainly because the Google cars’ speed is capped at 25 miles per hour by the developer, for safety reasons. The company also said that they didn’t want to scare anybody by making driverless cars zoom by in a neighborhood, they wanted their cars to be as friendly as they possibly could be.
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When the officer approached the auto, he recognized it was a Google self-driving vehivle and talked against the operators in about how they pick what speeds to use specific roadways along.
As much as it may look like the robots are getting special treatment, the autonomous auto did not get a ticket this time – and in fact, they never have been on the receiving end of the long arm of the law.
How do you pull over a auto that drives itself?
“Bet humans don’t get pulled over for that too often”, the technology giant joked in a blog post.
After assessing as to why the auto was moving at a reduced rate of speed, the officer informed the operator and passengers of laws regarding impeding traffic.
A Google self-driving vehicle travels eastbound on San Antonio Road in Mountain View, Calif., on Wednesday, October 22, 2015.
“Like this officer, people sometimes flag us down when they want to know more about our project”.
Statistics suggest that 90 per cent of all vehicle accidents are caused by human error and most experts acknowledge that self-drive cars will drastically reduce the number of road traffic accidents.
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With this past September, Google had 73 autonomous vehicles.
