| Title | Google Car Handles City Streets | |
| Date | Monday November 21 2016, @09:30PM | |
| Author | GreatOutdoors | |
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| from the Google-don't-need-no-stinking-driver dept. | ||
Google gives us an update on their latest self-driving car escapades. Make sure you check out the video in the article [blogspot.com] for a look at how the car handles various situations thrown at it.
Jaywalking pedestrians. Cars lurching out of hidden driveways. Double-parked delivery trucks blocking your lane and your view. At a busy time of day, a typical city street can leave even experienced drivers sweaty-palmed and irritable. We all dream of a world in which city centers are freed of congestion from cars circling for parking [accessmagazine.org] and have fewer intersections made dangerous by distracted drivers. That's why over the last year we've shifted the focus of the Google self-driving car project onto mastering city street driving.[...]
[...] We've improved our software so it can detect hundreds of distinct objects simultaneously-pedestrians, buses, a stop sign held up by a crossing guard, or a cyclist making gestures that indicate a possible turn. A self-driving vehicle can pay attention to all of these things in a way that a human physically can't-and it never gets tired or distracted.
Would you trust your kids crossing the road with autonomous cars driving in the area?
What if you had an emergency situation and needed the car to hurry up and get you to the hospital in a traffic jam?
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