Google released its robot cars on the road in Austin, Texas

Google Inc. continues to develop autonomous control systems for passenger cars. Test авто wound hundreds of thousands of kilometers (or rather, it is already more than 2 million kilometers) on US roads, but the tests do not stop. So, Google has decided to test their cars on the roads of the capital of Texas, Austin. The Corporation reported that the tests were conducted to test operation of the software and hardware platforms in different conditions (different congestion, the types of tracks, etc.).

Austin became the first city after the Mountain View, which was conducted as a large-scale test of robotic cars. The reason? "We really like the way Austin takes innovation", - the press-secretary of Google. In addition, Austin has several offices, plus a project Google Fiber . It is logical that in the village with the saturation of Google products, the company will carry out the test in the first place.

As before, the safety car is in every two people who are prepared to have to take it over. The company has also received permission from the governor of Texas Greg Abbott, the Texas branch of the Ministry of Transportation, the police and other government agencies. However, the company never tells the media about the time of testing or even the intention to carry out tests in a particular locality.

Note that in 6 years of testing cars Corporation were 11 accidents. In all cases, as it turned out, the cause of the accident were pedestrians or drivers who do not obey the traffic rules. The Corporation recently unveiled the details of any accidents, to the public and the authorities to ensure that the automatic control system worked as it should, and the accident did not blame the computer.

Austin tested model Lexus RX450h.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/253236/