Google started developing the project of driverless cars in 2009. Google’s self-drive car is still in testing stage.
But Google, one of the first companies to launch a development effort for a driverless car has been testing this project over the years and lets us know few facts that took place for the reason of still in progress state.
Google’s self-drive cars have been involved in 11 minor accidents in the 6 years since the project began. In a recent news, the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Plaza is a mall which sells pet accessories, a Thai restaurant and a yoghurt shop was chosen as a venue to display the Google’s self-drive car parking skills.
On the eve of Austin’s annual South by Southwest tech-and-culture festival attended by the American New Mexico Mayor Richard J. Berry of Albuquerque. Sam Liccardo, mayor of San Jose, California also witnessed the show.
Google needs to change some of the regulations of the federal state and local authorities that cover the issues like whether cars must have steering wheels and to who’s fault if a driverless car hits another vehicle.
Google is mounting a lobbying and public-relations campaign across America to win acceptance for “autonomous vehicles”. In the United States, these type of lobbying is formally known to shape the rules of the road safety.
The Google tests its driverless cars on public streets of Kirkland, Washington, Phoenix, and Arizona this year. It has added the mentioned streets apart from its first testing street of Austin.
The company won a first important victory in February when the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) ruled that the artificial intelligence system piloting a self-driving car could be considered under federal law. NHTSA has promised to issue driverless-car guidelines by July.
On Tuesday, Google along with Ford, Lyft, Uber and Volvo Cars formed an alliance for “the Self-Driving Coalition for Safer Streets” programme. The coalition’s public face will be David Strickland – the former head of NHTSA.
In the US government’s lexicon, California’s incrementalist approach is called Level Three autonomy or “L3” on a scale running from L0. The driver does everything to a fully autonomous L4 vehicle that needs no human intervention. L3 advocates are certainly not ready for humans to be completely taken out of the driver’s seat.