Car Google leaves on public roads

Until now, Google has been testing unmanned vehicles party (Lexus and others.). Let stuffed contingency electronics and equipped with proprietary software, but these machines are made by someone else. And he made them initially to the human driver, and then Google them refitted.

This summer, Google will begin testing on public roads have their own, real unmanned vehicle. At the request of the authorities had so far have pedals, steering wheel (removable) and mirrors, but this is temporary.

Initially, Google is going to equip the machine with only one button ("Go"), so it should be ideally. In principle, even the windows could be closed shutters, including the windshield, if the passenger has decided to take a nap. But at this stage of historical development of the law forbids it.

"When we started to design the world's first fully unmanned vehicle, the goal was to completely rid a person of the burden of the machine control, - сказано corporate blog. - The vehicle must deliver a person from point A to point B by pressing a button. And it could change the lives of millions of people as 94% of traffic accidents caused by human error , restore people billions of hours wasted in traffic jams, as well as to give opportunities to those who can not move because they do not have the physical capabilities to control the machine ».

Now, the next phase has big plans for Google to transform the global transport system. Test your own car, which is collected on its own assembly line Google.

This summer, several small machines will leave the test track and will leave on a public road in Mountain View (CA), with the pilots to safety inside. For the first time it is planned to test the 25 cars in the vicinity of the headquarters, and then build another 50-100 units, and expand the range of testing over the hilly terrain and rainy.



Cars thoroughly checked at the site so that Google is confident in the reliability of the software and sensors.

The new prototypes will add a small squad cars Lexus RX450h, which has long ride on roads and in all that time have not committed any accident (while not sit behind the wheel of a man, of course). They drove almost 1 million miles (1, 6 million km) and rolls now for 10 thousand. Miles in a day (16 thousand. Km).

For each prototype set a maximum speed limit of 25 mph (40 km / h), so as not to disturb others drivers and not to scare them.



Electric vehicle batteries is enough for 130 kilometers, and it will only go from the known routes.

Google is looking forward to the start of the test, to see how people around the car will react to this unusual and unforeseen complications which may arise.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/250456/