Google Builds Its First Self-Driving Car; Without Steering Wheel, Accelerator & Brakes, Of Course
Google has taken its idea of self-driving cars to the next level by designing and building its own car from scratch. Its previous attempts involved fitting its systems aboard cars from other automobile manufacturers <a href="https://www.crazyengineers.com/threads/googles-self-driving-car-travels-300-000-miles-without-any-accident.66338">Google's Self-Driving Car Travels 300,000 Miles Without Any Accident</a>. Googleâs fully self-driving car prototype is a small two-seater car that has no accelerator, brakes or steering wheel. All you can find inside are two seats, a small space for passenger luggage, start-stop buttons and a screen that shows the route. The top speed of these cars however is limited to 25mph (40 kmph). The cars have sensors that are able to detect objects out to a distance of two football fields and they are able to get rid of blind spots.
Prototype Car
The cars adorn a simplistic look and are devoid of any luxury components like car stereo. Google has a very good reason for it too. It says that it wants to learn the way the cars function in the real world and make changes to its design and working as quickly as possible. Google is planning to build a hundred of these prototype vehicles with manual controls for its safety tests before embarking on a small pilot program in California which is likely to begin in a couple of years.
Artist's Rendering of Final Product
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