Hey there! Good to see you. WASSUP? Sorting slowly through your emails are you? Yeah, me too? Coffee's hot and there's a tray of delectable virtual treats next to it so help yourself. Got a 'keep the line moving' story for you today...
Google playfully
posted a photo of a motorcycle cop pulling over one of its self-driving cars on
Thursday for riding along at a cautious pace.
"Driving
too slowly?" the self driving car team asked rhetorically in a message
that accompanied a picture on its Google+ social network page.
"Bet humans
don’t get pulled over for that too often."
Police in
Google's home town of Mountain View in Silicon Valley explained in an online
post that an officer noticed traffic backing up behind a self-driving car going
24 mph on a street with a 35 mph speed limit.
"As the
officer approached the slow moving car he realized it was a Google Autonomous
Vehicle," the police department said.
"In this
case, it was lawful for the car to be traveling on the street."
California law
allows self-driving cars to operated on roads with speed limits of 35 mph or
slower.
The officer did
chat with the occupant of the car about impeding traffic, according to police.
Google caps the
speed of its self-driving cars at 25 mph for safety reasons.
"We want
them to feel friendly and approachable, rather than zooming scarily through
neighbourhood streets," Google said of the speed cap on it driverless cars.
"After 1.2
million miles of autonomous driving (that's the human equivalent of 90 years of
driving experience), we're proud to say we’ve never been ticketed!"
Bring that car up here in February, I dare you!
See ya, eh!
Bob
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