Mountain View P.D. said they are in regular contact with Google to ensure that their vehicles operate safely within the community.
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“This afternoon a Mountain View Police Department traffic officer noticed traffic backing up behind a slow-moving auto traveling in the eastbound #3 lane on El Camino Real, near Rengstorff Ave”, the department announced. So the officer asked the passenger how the auto was choosing speeds along certain roadways. The operators were told that in the future, if Google’s new vehicle causes traffic issues that they need to pull over and let traffic go by just as if they were any other auto having an issue of a few sort.
In a Google Plus post, the Google Self-Driving auto Project pled guilty to slow driving.
Google’s autonomous vehicle project, which has logged 1.2 million miles, was almost handed its first traffic ticket when police officers stopped one of the cars because it was going 24 mph in a 35 mph zone.
“We want them to feel friendly and approachable, rather than zooming scarily through neighborhood streets”, Google said of the speed cap on it driverless cars. No harm, no foul. “Driving too slowly? Bet humans don´t get pulled over for that too often”, Google commented on the issue.
For its part, the Google Self-Driving auto Project seemed proud of the whole affair.
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And the cars’ unblemished record continues. The blog said that the cars – outfitted with high-tech sensors and computing power – have never received a ticket so far.
