New law gives driverless cars green light in California as Google moves ahead with development

I, for one, welcome or new Google driverless car overlords.

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http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/new-law-gives-driverless-cars-green-light-in-california/

New law gives driverless cars green light in California as Google moves ahead with development

September 25, 2012 By Trevor Mogg

California governor Jerry Brown signed a driverless car bill into law in the presence of Google’s Sergey Brin on Tuesday. The Mountain View company has been developing driverless technology for several years, with Brin claiming the special vehicle could be in car showrooms in the next five years.

Read more: http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/new-law-gives-driverless-cars-green-light-in-california/#ixzz27a8wOJp6

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7 comments

Romantic Heretic Wed, Sep 26, 2012 6:34:28am

Yet another reason for me, a constant pedestrian, to treat walking as a dangerous activity.

Destro Wed, Sep 26, 2012 6:52:40am

re: #1 Romantic Heretic

The Google cars have been accident free - except once and that was caused by a human in another vehicle.

We would all be better off with robot drivers. The death and injury toll from auto accidents is insane - it's like a Vietnam war level rate of casualties every year.

jc717 Wed, Sep 26, 2012 7:31:33am

Can't wait for this. It's like having a chauffeur. You can read or sleep, etc.
Awesome!
Still , I'll wait for version 2.0 before taking the plunge :-)

Destro Wed, Sep 26, 2012 8:37:16am

re: #3 jc717

If this works, and I think it will, this will make Google much more money than their cell phone operating system or their online ad business.

This is literally a game changer.

Romantic Heretic Wed, Sep 26, 2012 9:13:56am

re: #2 Destro

Sorry. I used to be a computer programmer so between "Eh. As soon as the clients sign off on this project I'll be gone.", management's "I don't care if it's good it has to be done by Tuesday!" and the hackers who are undoubtedly giddy with joy about the fun they will have creating viruses and malware for these vehicles I'm not looking forward to this.

I suspect this is going to be like designing modern weapons. You can test but you won't find out if it really works until you get it into combat, and even then it will be "Oops. Hadn't thought of that."

Destro Wed, Sep 26, 2012 9:28:17am

re: #5 Romantic Heretic

Why would a self contained system like this catch a virus? Airplane avionics kind of work like this and no airplane virus that I have heard off for that software......

Shiplord Kirel Wed, Sep 26, 2012 10:04:07am

We desperately need this in Lubbock before the city's notoriously aggressive yahoo drivers make the place uninhabitable.

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