Google announced that a few of its self-driving car prototypes will drive the roads of Mountain View, CA starting this summer (with someone in the driver’s seat).
The cars can drive up to 25 mph, and come with a removable steering wheel, accelerator pedal, and brake pedal that allows the driver to take over if needed.
Google’s fleet of self driving cars have logged in over a million miles on its test tracks.
“We’ve been running the vehicles through rigorous testing at our test facilities, and ensuring our software and sensors work as they’re supposed to on this new vehicle,” said Google in a blog.
It added, “We’re looking forward to learning how the community perceives and interacts with the vehicles, and to uncovering challenges that are unique to a fully self-driving vehicle—e.g., where it should stop if it can’t stop at its exact destination due to construction or congestion. In the coming years, we’d like to run small pilot programs with our prototypes to learn what people would like to do with vehicles like this.”
Source: Google
