Google's fully automated driving car finally makes public road travel debut

Start public road running experiment in the summer of 2015It was announced that Google's fully automated driving car that announced it actually started running public roads. It seems that driving experiments are being conducted mainly in Mountain View, California where Google's head office is located.

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Google's fully automated driving car that made this public road debut is a fully autonomous vehicle that does not have an operating system such as a steering wheel or an accelerator pedal in the car. Google was doing public road experiment with vehicles which modified Lexus · RX 450h and Toyota Prius so far, but this time the point where the fully automatic type self-driving car developed from scratch began to run is the biggest point .


However, since this time is still in the stage of experimental driving, safety staff watching operation is on board the vehicle, and by placing removable handles and pedals on the vehicle, it will be necessary to manually It is said to be able to switch to driving. Also, considering the safety of the surroundings and the neighborhood, the speed limiter of maximum 25 mph (about 40 km / h) is set in the vehicle. It seems that software that controls running is already installed in Lexus and has a running history of 1.6 million km in total.

Google's fully automated driving car, which has taken the new next step from running experiments so far, is likely to gather data as the mileage is steadily increasing. It is not that the software itself is already using a track record, so it is not that a completely unknown thing suddenly appears, but what kind of reaction the surroundings will actually show when this vehicle is encountered on the streets is interesting is.

As if timing is adjusted to this, California has decided to publicly disclose details of traffic accidents related to self driving car in general.

California reveals details of self-driving car accidents


The state authorities have decided not to disclose any details of the accident that happened on the street so far, but in May 2015 AP communicationGoogle 's self - driving car had encountered 11 accidents in 6 yearsReporting. In response to the discussion on the transparency of information triggered by this, the California DMV (department dealing with vehicle relations) decided to publish a part of the accident record. The accident material is announced with personal information such as the name of the party and the part related to insurance covered in black, but it is said that all situations where accident occurred can be confirmed.

In addition, Google has launched "Monthly Report" including vehicle accident information on its own website, and anyone can freely browse it.

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