steveox
Well-Known Member
Google's testing of self-driving cars has always generated more questions than answers. While it demonstrated the viability of such technology on public roads, and spurred major automakers to vow that their own systems would be in public hands by the end of the decade, there's never been a clear answer as to where Google planned to take its own technology.
Today the answer arrived in the form of the illustration above: Google will build it's own self-driving cars — ones that test the technology to such a degree that they lack steering wheels.
After several years of testing Toyota Priuses and Lexus RX 300s outfitted with sensors and Google software, Google's director of autonomous vehicles Chris Urmson revealed the plan Tuesday night in a blog post, saying the company was aiming to build about 100 prototype vehicles, equipped with two seats, a little room for passengers and a few buttons for inputting directions — and that's about it.
https://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motor...-its-own-self-driving-vehicles-031444947.html
What about a pilotless plane? Or an Captainless ship?
Today the answer arrived in the form of the illustration above: Google will build it's own self-driving cars — ones that test the technology to such a degree that they lack steering wheels.
After several years of testing Toyota Priuses and Lexus RX 300s outfitted with sensors and Google software, Google's director of autonomous vehicles Chris Urmson revealed the plan Tuesday night in a blog post, saying the company was aiming to build about 100 prototype vehicles, equipped with two seats, a little room for passengers and a few buttons for inputting directions — and that's about it.
https://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motor...-its-own-self-driving-vehicles-031444947.html
What about a pilotless plane? Or an Captainless ship?