Flying autos may still be something of a pipe dream, but letting you car conduct itself is coming closer and closer to reality.
March 1 (Bloomberg) - A California state senator arrived at a press conference at the Sacramento capitol in a Google Inc.-modified Toyota Prius that drives itself. He announced new legislation written with Google’s input at the event, timed to coincide with new regulations allowing the world’s first autonomous vehicles to be road-tested and registered in neighboring Nevada. This step has a goal to to show policymakers that while the cars of the future aren’t yet ready for public use, it’s time for laws to accommodate them.
Google’s autonomous Prius concepts, equipped with computer-controlled gas, brakes and steering mechanisms aided by GPS, cameras and dozens of other sensor systems, have already logged over 200,000 miles on public roads.
“I imagine a lot of people think of a self-driving car as science fiction or something out of The Jetsons and something that may not be available for a long time,” Padilla said after climbing out of the black Prius with a Google logo on the side and spinning sensors attached to the roof.
Of course there are a lot of things to develop in that driverless cars, but still it's a breakthrough!
New cars become like good horses, which draw their owners home even when owners are enable to drive =)
P.S. Maybe I've hurried to get a driver's license?.. =)
March 1 (Bloomberg) - A California state senator arrived at a press conference at the Sacramento capitol in a Google Inc.-modified Toyota Prius that drives itself. He announced new legislation written with Google’s input at the event, timed to coincide with new regulations allowing the world’s first autonomous vehicles to be road-tested and registered in neighboring Nevada. This step has a goal to to show policymakers that while the cars of the future aren’t yet ready for public use, it’s time for laws to accommodate them.
Google’s autonomous Prius concepts, equipped with computer-controlled gas, brakes and steering mechanisms aided by GPS, cameras and dozens of other sensor systems, have already logged over 200,000 miles on public roads.
“I imagine a lot of people think of a self-driving car as science fiction or something out of The Jetsons and something that may not be available for a long time,” Padilla said after climbing out of the black Prius with a Google logo on the side and spinning sensors attached to the roof.
Of course there are a lot of things to develop in that driverless cars, but still it's a breakthrough!
New cars become like good horses, which draw their owners home even when owners are enable to drive =)
P.S. Maybe I've hurried to get a driver's license?.. =)
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