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发信人: paulc (paulc), 信区: PDA
标 题: Google自动驾驶车加州可以合法上路了
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Sep 26 17:53:26 2012, 美东)
虽然和pda不沾边，但是和google沾边。。。哈哈
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Speeding into the Future: Self-Driving Cars Are Now Legal in California
By Erik Hayden | @Erik_Hayden | September 26, 2012 | +
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Gov. Jerry Brown, CA State Senator Alex Padilla and Google's Sergey Brin
exiting a Google self-driving car on Tuesday.
In California, the sun-baked state where gridlocked freeways seem like the
rule more than the exception, a future-thinking invention could halt the
chronic traffic and cure a host of other auto-related ills. Yes, self-
driving cars are now legal in the Golden State.
On Tuesday, during a visit to Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.,
Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation to allow autonomous vehicles to
operate on the state’s roads. In a press release, Brown deemed the signing
of the bill as “turning today’s science fiction into tomorrow’s reality.
” The state is the third in the U.S. to legalize self-driving cars,
following Nevada and Florida who passed similar laws earlier this year. But
it’s California’s chronically congested roads that could benefit the most
from the vehicles. The tools that the car uses to drive, including radar and
GPS tracking, help manage traffic flow by maintaining a constant speed and
can even help reduce the necessary gap between cars.
But that doesn’t mean you’ll be lounging in the backseat watching Netflix
while Google does all the navigating — yet, at least. There are an
incalculable number of tests that still need to be completed before Minority
Report becomes reality. And the legalization means that Google will be able
to conduct these tests on their home turf.
(MORE: Google’s Driverless Cars Now Officially Licensed in Nevada)
Google co-founder Sergey Brin painted California as an appealing utopia for
drivers once autonomous cars become standard. He stated in the release that
they’ll be “providing transportation to those not currently served,
increasing safety on the road, reducing or eliminating congestion, and
turning parking into parkland.” More plentiful parking? Seems like the
dream of the future, indeed.
Brown also laid out some regulatory ground rules. For now, all self-driving
cars in the state need to have a licensed driver in the front seat of the
car, as stipulated by the legislation, Senate Bill 1298. That precaution is
there presumably in the case that, you know, there’s some unpredictable
event that the creators of a car that drives itself were somehow unable to
account for. But Google has been prepping the American public for a
driverless future for years now. In August, the tech company said on its
official blog that the autonomous cars have completed over 300,000 miles in
a variety of conditions and “there hasn’t been a single accident under
computer control.”
But for those worried about leaving your safety up to the computations of a
microprocessor, the commonly-stated belief cited in news reports right now
is that these autonomous cars might reduce the amount of accidents on the
road. In January of this year, Wired magazine published an optimistic cover
story trumpeting the age of the autonomous vehicle, and writer Tom
Vanderbilt explained the safety reasoning after he rode in a robo-Prius:
Traffic is the most dangerous thing that most of us ever encounter. From
2001 to 2009, American roads claimed 369,629 lives. And the culprit was not
poorly lighted thoroughfares or faulty gas pedals but us—one landmark
study cited “human errors” as the “definite or probable causes” of 93
percent of crashes.
Faced with the alternatives — that guy who cut us off without signaling
, the mom nursing an Ambien hangover who’s drifting into the right lane,
the Bluetooth jockey doing 90 mph — I welcome our new robotic Prius-driving
overlords.
The details sound earth-shattering, sure. But just one question remains:
when can you get one? Probably a decade from now, Brin predicted, according
to the Associated Press.
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发帖数: 6488 | | l******k
发帖数: 27533 | 3 边开车边灌水？
【在 l*r 的大作中提到】
: 【 以下文字转载自 PDA 讨论区 】
: 发信人: paulc (paulc), 信区: PDA
: 标 题: Google自动驾驶车加州可以合法上路了
: 发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Sep 26 17:53:26 2012, 美东)
: 虽然和pda不沾边，但是和google沾边。。。哈哈
: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/09/26/speeding-into-the-future-se
: Speeding into the Future: Self-Driving Cars Are Now Legal in California
: By Erik Hayden | @Erik_Hayden | September 26, 2012 | +
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| l******k
发帖数: 27533 | 4 “all self-driving cars in the state need to have a licensed driver in the
front seat of the car”
【在 z********2 的大作中提到】
: 好，不考驾照了，搬上板凳等它正式上市的那天！
| z********2
发帖数: 6488 | 5 呃，看漏了……悲催……
【在 l******k 的大作中提到】
: “all self-driving cars in the state need to have a licensed driver in the
: front seat of the car”
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