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Self-Driving Cars Approved by California Legislature
Friday, 31 Aug 2012/ By: Aaron Sankin, The Huffington Post
The California state legislature just moved that dream a little closer to reality by approving a bill paving the way for driverless cars to be allowed on Golden State freeways.
The
bill, authored by State Senator Alex Padilla (D-Van Nuys), was passed
by the state Assembly on Wednesday and then given the overwhelming
thumbs up by the state Senate the following day.
If
signed by Governor Jerry Brown, Padilla's bill would legally allow
autonomous vehicles on the road and charge the state's Department of
Motor Vehicles with determining the standards for self-driving cars,
rules which current do not exist under the present vehicle code.
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Paving The Way for Driverless Cars
By Clifford Winston/ Wall Street Journal/ July 18, 2012
California’s proposed bullet train between Los Angeles and San Francisco—which Gov. Jerry Brown is likely to sign off on soon—has been characterized by the Obama administration and its other supporters as an effective way to reduce highway congestion. These costs amount to more than $100 billion annually in wasted time and higher fuel expenses.In fact, a much better technological solution is on the horizon, if we pave the way by getting rid of obsolete highway design. It is already possible to imagine a world in which you could predict exactly how long it would take to drive in your car from one point to another. No worries about rush hour, vacation congestion, bad drivers, speed traps and accidents. You could also text while you drive with no safety implications.
All this may be possible thanks to a “driverless” car that does a human driver’s normal job and much more. The car is operated by a computer that obtains information 10 times per second from short-range transmitters on surrounding road conditions, including where other cars are and what they are doing.
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How Google's Self-Driving Car Works
Watch video footage of what the on-board computer "sees," how it detects other vehicles, pedestrians and traffic lights.Google's fleet of robotic Toyota Priuses has now logged more than 190,000 miles.
The cars could reduce road accidents, congestion and fuel consumption.
Once a secret project, Google's autonomous vehicles are now out in the open, quite literally, with the company test-driving them on public roads and, on one occasion, even inviting people to ride inside one of the robot cars as it raced around a closed course.
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Future of driverless cars faces legal roadblocks
By Eric Niiler
updated 6/12/2012 Automobile engineers are closing in on developing a fully driverless vehicle that will slow down, speed up, change lanes and take you where you want to go without touching either the brake or steering wheel.
Carmakers say these cars will cut the number of accidents down to near zero, taking human error out of the equation, as well as saving energy by allowing you to get from point A to point B without wasting gas at traffic lights or endlessly circling for a parking space.
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