Google self-driving car pulled over for driving too slowly
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Google self-driving car pulled over for driving too slowly
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Re: Google self-driving car pulled over for driving too slowly
#2In autonomous mode do they pull over properly if A. getting pulled over and B. emergency vehicles are whirring about doing their thing?
Re: Google self-driving car pulled over for driving too slowly
#3Well I for one would find a vehicle travelling at 40km/h in a 60 zone incredibly annoying, even if they're legally allowed to travel that slow.
Re: Google self-driving car pulled over for driving too slowly
#4In autonomous mode do they pull over properly if A. getting pulled over and B. emergency vehicles are whirring about doing their thing?
Excellent question.
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#5I think about this often. Every day in rush hour traffic I have to take a number of calculated risks in order to get to work. This usually crops up when making a turn onto a highly congested road. I could easily see a self driving car being too conservative to find a gap and pull out, leading to a furious string of drivers behind it.
Re: Google self-driving car pulled over for driving too slowly
#6I think about this often. Every day in rush hour traffic I have to take a number of calculated risks in order to get to work. This usually crops up when making a turn onto a highly congested road. I could easily see a self driving car being too conservative to find a gap and pull out, leading to a furious string of drivers behind it.
The problem would be resolved quite nicely if all cars were self driving, interconnected, and could be governed by a master plan.
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#7In autonomous mode do they pull over properly if A. getting pulled over and B. emergency vehicles are whirring about doing their thing?
I can't wait for a hacker to make a "Get-out-of-my-way" gun out of blinking lights that makes all the Google cars in front of her pull over.
Maybe she could build it out of IR LEDs, so it's not obvious to humans. :)
Re: Google self-driving car pulled over for driving too slowly
#8I think about this often. Every day in rush hour traffic I have to take a number of calculated risks in order to get to work. This usually crops up when making a turn onto a highly congested road. I could easily see a self driving car being too conservative to find a gap and pull out, leading to a furious string of drivers behind it.
Yes, though once there are enough of them on the road, they could be made to help each other out. In fact, they could make it so that human drivers are at a disadvantage.
Re: Google self-driving car pulled over for driving too slowly
#9I think about this often. Every day in rush hour traffic I have to take a number of calculated risks in order to get to work. This usually crops up when making a turn onto a highly congested road. I could easily see a self driving car being too conservative to find a gap and pull out, leading to a furious string of drivers behind it.
I don't think this a case of the car being so careful that it got pulled over. It mentions in the article that Google artificially capped the speed of the prototype to 25mph. That implies that the car is able and willing to go faster, but Google doesn't feel comfortable going that fast yet. (I don't buy their stated PR reason for the cap.)
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#10They didn't link to either of their sources, so I went and found them:
Mountain View Police Department blog post: http://mountainviewpoliceblog.com/2015/11/12/inquiring-minds...
Google Self-Driving Car Project Google+ post: https://plus.google.com/+SelfDrivingCar/posts/j9ouVZSZnRf