As said, there haven’t been any accidents with the cars, except for a fender bender that occurred while the vehicle was being manually driven by a Google employee. But some people are still reluctant about letting a robot drive them around. In the next phase of testing the team assigned to the project is now using the autonomous vehicles for their daily commutes and errands; the same driving situation consumers undergo everyday. There is still a lot of data to be collected regarding driving on different terrain, and in extreme weather conditions. Analysts estimate that we won’t see self-driving vehicles hit the market until 2025, but I’m reluctant to believe it will take 13 years to perfect the technology at the rate Google is going. via [Google Official Blog]
If a hacker ever takes over command central however — yeah, that would be bad. Comment
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