Google has been building self-driving cars for years. There is absolutely nothing new or revolutionary in this. What is revolutionary is that this time Google presents its model of the vehicle of the future. So far, he has always used vehicles that have been modified with their technology for testing. The Google car has no steering wheel, no brakes, no gas pedal. Check out why in the video?!
Co-founder companies Google, Sergej Brin revealed the reasons why both the steering wheel and control pedals were omitted from the vehicle. Namely, it is a shift in the very philosophy and view of the car as an object. This is also why the vehicle has several strategic sensors that monitor the surroundings and monitor traffic. This vehicle is all about optimization and experimentation, as the vehicle can so far only drive up to 25 miles per hour, which is slightly more than 35 km/h. The only button that the vehicle has is a big red button that says "stop".
Until cars, which drive completely independently still has a long way to go. However, it seems that this future is not so far away. According to the predictions of experts in this field, it should be proven within a decade that these types of vehicles are safer to use than conventional ones vehicles, driven by fallible people. From then on, the day is not far away when we will be able to lie down in sofa and let themselves be taken somewhere far away.
Interesting view on vehicles that drive independently also displays video below, which was created some time ago.
How Google tests technology for self-driving in everyday city bustle
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Google was created in 1996 as a web search engine project developed by Stanford students Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The search engine operated at http://google.stanford.edu, and in 1997 the domain google.com was registered. A year later, a company of the same name based in California was founded. The complex of buildings in which the company's management works is called the Googleplex. The etymology of the company name is related to the number of googols, 10^{100}\,\!.
