Google Calls California’s Self-Driving Car Proposals ‘Perplexing’

It’s similar to the thorny ethical issues driverless auto creators are wrestling with over how to program them to make life-or-death decisions in an accident.

California recently proposed that self driving cars should have someone with a license behind the wheel, and Google’s angry at the idea.

Meanwhile, given the state’s size and influence, California’s new rules may put a major pause on the timetable for public release of self-driving cars. The DMV has said it wants the regulations to protect public safety, but not be too onerous so that signature companies such as Google will be stifled in developing a technology with huge life-saving potential.

Google is on a fast track.

The fewer people motivated to pony up for an autonomauto, the less data the state will gather about the vehicles’ safety, and the more protracted the transition will be.

In almost every case analyzed in the study, driverless cars were not to blame for collisions with conventional cars.

In the post, he urges regulators to “imagine a better future, and take urgent steps to get there”. Another vehicle stopped behind it and also began rolling forward, rear-ending the SUV at 4 miles per hour.

Both companies have a lot to offer to the process: Google has an incredible tech background, and GM has experience in building affordable, quality vehicles.

That’s why programmers are now debating whether it’s time to teach self-driving cars to commit infractions, according to a Bloomberg article.

But programming cars to be a bit more daring can also quickly create a new suite of issues.

The main argument on the other side is that these things could kill people. But can something be too cautious?

Alphabet’s pet project of driverless cars started in 2009 and it along with other automakers have said the technology to build self-driving cars should be ready by 2020.

In fact, Britain could be one of the first countries in the world to get driverless cars, after it emerged that the government has been in talks with Google about testing its autonomous vehicles on United Kingdom roads. “Driving is a social game”.

However, Urmson makes it clear that Google hasn’t given up on persuading California to share its vision for an autonomous future, writing that “continue to work with the DMV as they seek feedback in the coming months, in the hope that we can recapture the original spirit of the bill”.

Raj Rajkumar, co-director of the General Motors-Carnegie Mellon Autonomous Driving Collaborative Research Lab in Pittsburgh tells Bloomberg that making the robot drivers more human by making them break traffic laws like humans do.

Tesla is a little shakier, due to the recent financial trouble they’ve experienced.

That could account for the prevalence of slow-speed, rear-end crashes, he added. Google has been working on the prototypes ever since.