Posted on 11/14/2015 12:24:34 PM PST by JoeProBono
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.- A California police officer pulled a car over for driving 10 mph under the speed limit yesterday only to find out that it was a driver-less Google car.
The Mountain View Police Department in the San Francisco Bay Area said an officer "noticed traffic backing up behind a slow moving car" on Thursday and pulled over what turned out to be an unoccupied Google Autonomous Vehicle.
The incident was photographed by Aleksandr Milewski, who shared his photo on Twitter.
"The officer made contact with the operators to learn more about how the car was choosing speeds along certain roadways and to educate the operators about impeding traffic," the police department said in a blog post.
"The Google self-driving cars operate under the Neighborhood Electric Vehicle Definition per 385.5 of the California Vehicle Code and can only be operated on roadways with speed limits at or under 35 mph. In this case, it was lawful for the car to be traveling on the street as El Camino Real is rated at 35 mph," the department said.
Google's headquarters are in Mountain View, Calif., a few miles from where the car was pulled over by police.
The Mountain View Police Department said in a blog post that it meets regularly with Google to make sure their cars operate safely in the community.
The Google Self-Driving Car Project said in a Google+ post the speed of the prototype vehicles is capped at 25 mph "for safety reasons."
"Like this officer, people sometimes flag us down when they want to know more about our project. After 1.2 million miles of autonomous driving (that's the human equivalent of 90 years of driving experience), we're proud to say we've never been ticketed!" the project said.
"Driving too slowly? Bet humans don't get pulled over for that too often."
Hahahahahahaha!
So who gets the ticket for a driverless car??? Does any human being get a ticket and points on their driving record???
You wouldn’t even need a tow truck. Just carry it back to the station.
It was a setup for free advertising.
They never pull anyone over for driving too slow.
Convenient, to get an overhead shot of the incident.
Yes, I’m a world class cynic.
How exactly is it pulled over.
The car was not unoccupied. The car had an observer/operator to take control if the autonomous system can not adapt to an unexpected situation, as all self-driving cars on public roads currently do. The reporter is an idiot who has no idea what words mean.
If there ever is an unoccupied car pulled over and ticketed, the violation would be cited against the owner of the vehicle.
How would the “self-driving” car know to pull over? Is there some kind of sensor for flashing lights and siren?
And who put the “self-driving” car on the road in the first place? I don’t believe that the car itself got a notion to run down to the nearest convenience store and pick up, say, a quart of oil or air freshener for the interior.
Multitudes of questions keep bubbling up, and no answer.
See Fr post.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3358994/posts
Back in the early 90s while cruising around looking for girls in Brooklyn I actually did get pulled over and ticketed for driving too slow.
Was it driving 25 MPH with the left hand turn signal on?
That is SO funny.
I got a ticket on the 210 9? near JPL) near Pasadena once while passing some slow-ass fast lane bandit doinb about 40 in a 55; I probably hit 65 getting past him. I asked the cop if he had ever given a ticket to someone impeding traffic, driving too SLOW and he said no, never.
Funny, I guess the rules change when your state is 60 BILLION in arrears and the normal “revenue enhancement” methods aren’t deep-pocketing your citizens enough.
Very soon someone is going to pack one of these driverless vehicles full of high explosives and you can guess what comes next.
Notice that the GOOGLE car is not ‘pulled over’ on the street it was going too slow on. (unless the speed limit in that parking lot is 35mph).
Years ago my youngest son and I were driving on the highway that was a main corridor through our suburb town. When we came to the slow sign I did slow down and my son and I also started singing songs for fun. I noticed a cop behind us but didn’t give it much thought until the cop flashed us to pull us over. We pulled over and the cop came to our car and read us the riot act about holding him up by going to slow. When I told the judge what went on he laughed at the cop and just dismissed all charges. Since then I have always taken cops actions with a grain of salt. It is just bad that a few bad apples ie. cops can spoil the good relationship between so many good/excellent cops and their public employers.
Future: Driverless car filled with explosives.
You're not cynical enough. You can never be cynical enough.
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