Fasten your seat belt, and shift over to the passenger seat, well that is because Google computers have been qualified as ‘drivers’, as per the direction of US government.
The following development is an important achievement for Google and other companies developing autonomous car technology.
According to Financial Times, the announcement came from National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA), which has agreed with Google’s proposed interpretations of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, which every car must pass, before hitting the roads.
Google is of the opinion that cars will be much safer when humans have no control or ability to intervene in driving at all, instead relying solely on an artificial intelligence system, which will make the potentially life-and-death decisions based on its data interpretation from an array of sensors, maps and cameras.
According to The Guardian, Google’s cars “will not have a ‘driver’ in the traditional sense that vehicles have had drivers during the last more than one hundred years,” the NHTSA wrote in the letter. “If no human occupant of the vehicle can actually drive the vehicle, it is more reasonable to identify the ‘driver’ as whatever (as opposed to whoever) is doing the driving.”
Tech giants and automakers including Google, Tesla, General Motors and Uber have been experimenting for years, with the driverless technology. But this Google’s breakthrough puts the search engine in the lead of the race to bring driverless cars to the masses.
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