Google will return the steering wheel and pedals in their robotic vehicles

Not so long ago, Google has demonstrated a robotic vehicle concept of how it is seen by the developers themselves. No steering or pedals - just a button "gone" (figuratively speaking). Overall, a really car of the future.

But the desire of developers - this one, but the opinion of legislators - is quite another. So, in the Department of Motor Vehicles of California, USA, decided that Google will have to return the car and the steering wheel and pedal system. According to officials, at any time, the driver must have the physical ability to control the vehicle.

itself, the corporation had to agree with it, and now the developers to return the system to a person driving a car, just to make the pedals and steering wheel slight, temporary - to enable the driver to check the system during a test run on the prototype robota- car.

Now California lawmakers are working on new rules that govern driving a car without a steering wheel and pedals. But to the practical implementation of this law will be a long time. So I have yet to ride a robotic vehicles with physical controls to humans.

Incidentally, the same legislators prohibit corporations to produce test rides on the roads of California robotic trucks and motorcycles. Apparently, it is not yet the time of such vehicles. As for passenger cars, according to the developers Google, they will drive on the roads in a couple of years. Now Google think about how robot cars can serve people as an automated service, such as taxis.

Via arstechnica

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