May 10, 2012
WORKING THE BUGS OUT OF THE SYSTEM:
Google's robot cars pass driving test (The Telegraph, 5/09/12)
Google's autonomous cars have passed their first driving test in Nevada, which included a trip along the famous Las Vegas Strip. [...]Google is one off several firms racing to develop cars able to drive themselves. It is competing with car manufacturers as well as military firms to develop the technology. The web giant's executive chairman Eric Schmidt has argued that the fact that current vehicles rely on human drivers is a "bug"."It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars," he said in 2010 as Google ramped up its research,in partnetship with Stanford University.
Why Google's self-driving car may save lives (Peter Valdes-Dapena, May 10, 2012, CNNMoney)
More than 30,000 people are killed each year in crashes despite huge advances in auto safety. The overwhelming majority of those crashes are caused by human-driver error.Computer driven cars could reduce traffic deaths by a very significant degree, said David Champion, head of auto testing at Consumer Reports, but only if all cars are computer-driven.
Posted by Orrin Judd at May 10, 2012 6:13 AM
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