Posted on 05/12/2015 7:06:25 AM PDT by BenLurkin
"I am not surprised that autonomous vehicles were hit," Smith said. "Any vehicle out on the road long enough will be in a crash."
Google said its automated cars have driven nearly 1 million miles on autopilot and are now averaging around 10,000 self-driven miles a week mostly on city streets. The cars have traveled another 700,000 miles with humans at the helm.
"Over the 6 years since we started the project, we've been involved in 11 minor accidents during those 1.7 million miles of autonomous and manual driving with our safety drivers behind the wheel, and not once was the self-driving car the cause of the accident," Google said in its blog Monday.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
/johnny
And now Nevada will have driverless TRUCKS
Let us pick the route and see what happens.
As a full time pedestrian, I’ve got to admit that these things make me nervous. But then, so do cars with drivers.....
I heard about this yesterday,
and the news reader said that none of the accidents
was the fault of the robo-cars.
“... these things make me nervous”.
Want to really poop your pants, Joe.. watch me parallel park. THAT is a HORROR story!
That claim is also made by most non-autonomous car drivers.
An accident every 150K miles? That’s several times more accidents than a skilled driver would have. Just because it is the not fault of the robot car does not necessarily mean it would not be avoided by a skilled human driver.
...not once was the self-driving car the cause of the accident,” Google said in its blog Monday.
...
Let’s see how many people read past the misleading headline.
Buy, did I word that wrong.
I should have said, “30-year driving history.”
ONE accident in ‘1987. Drunk driver ran a stop sign and I hit him at 40 MPH.
I’d be much more comfortable driving on a road with self-driving cars than with other people. A computer doesn’t try to cut you off, try to beat the traffic light, tailgate, or coast through stop signs. Plus they signal every time they are supposed to.
On the other hand, I don’t think I would like to be a passenger in a self-driving car. The fear that something would go wrong and I couldn’t get control of the vehicle back would always be in the back of my mind.
Parallel parking is the easy part. The hard part is scraping all the paint off my bumpers...
Someday it will be illegal to drive a private vehicle
LOL!!
***The cars have traveled another 700,000 miles with humans at the helm. ***
Why have a driverless car if you still have to have a driver with the car?
Like having a pilotless plane with a pilot still with it.
Here come the Semis
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3286934/posts
First Self-Driving Semi Hits American Roads
I learned to parallel park in a 1970-something Buick Land Yacht. If you can parallel park one of those things, you can parallel park anything short of a semi.
Watch this simple tutorial on how it's done.
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