For the past few years, Google has been branching out into the vast areas of technology just to prove to the world that they can conquer anything other than search engines. From mobile phones, operating systems, tablets to the latest glass technology comes Google’s self driving Car! Yes you heard it right, a car that drives itself, without a driver!
A project led by Google engineer Sebastian Thrun, director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and co-inventor of Google Street View, it combines information gathered from Google Street View with artificial intelligence software that combines input from video cameras inside the car, a LIDAR sensor on top of the vehicle, radar sensors on the front of the vehicle and a position sensor attached to one of the rear wheels that helps locate the car’s position on the map. Many people are wondering how self-driving cars are going to eventually affect driving laws all around the world, negating the need for some laws, while also needing the addition of many new ones and questioning some current laws and how a not-at-fault party would go about winning a left turn accident law suit and who would be to blame for example.
The car can of course be manually driven by a driver. Google has been lobbying for the such technology in the states but in June of last year the U.S. state of Nevada passed a law concerning the operation of driverless cars in Nevada. The Nevada law went into effect on March 1, 2012, and the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles issued the first license for a self-driven car in May 2012. The license was issued to a Toyota Prius modified with Google’s experimental driver-less technology.
There has been one car accident with a Google Driverless car but it was claimed that it was driven manually at the time of the accident and so Google is pushing to start commercializing the technology in other states and hopefully to the rest of the world.
WE SAID THIS: We ant imagine what this technology bring on to Egyptian streets or middle eastern streets for that matter.
