Google Car

The author Jim Kersetter dicusses in his article, “Google’s Driverless Car Learns to Navigate an Imperfect World,” the scrutiny of drivers and their relation to Google’s new smart car. The car was built to respond to all the rules and regulations of the road. The driver can be overrun by the cars knowledge of the “rules of the road.” Unfortunately, the car recently has just had its first accident after having a perfect safe-driver insurance record. There is speculation as to whether it was the car or the driver being at fault for the accident. The car approached at crosswalk and slowed to a stop. There was a “safety-driver” inside the car since they are not fully operated to handle themselves on the road alone, yet. The driver inside of the car applied the brakes as well to allow the pedestrian to cross. The pedestrian was not the cause of the accident, but the car behind the Google car did by hitting the Google car from the rear. After Google did a further examination of the car, they noticed that if the car was left on its own the it would have stopped closer to the crosswalk, giving the car behind it more time to stop.

I found this study to be interesting since man cannot take in the probability of a car nearing upon them, but people have built a car so well it could. I personally hate driving and a car that can drive itself sounds pretty fabulous. Not having to worry about the rules of the road can come at a price and make people lazy and unaware of laws. People eventually could lose their sense of surroundings in general, but I doubt one car will lead to scene out of Disney’s “Wall-E.” I think the invention is pretty nifty and I cannot wait to see what other new era cars are coming in my lifetime.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/02/daily-report-googles-driverless-car-learns-to-navigate-an-imperfect-world/?ref=technology