Google’s cars receive no tickets after 1.2 million miles of driving

“Driving too slowly? Bet humans don´t get pulled over for that too often”, Google commented on the issue.

“As the officer approached the slow moving auto he realized it was a Google Autonomous Vehicle”, a police department post said.

“Police in Google’s home town of Mountain View in Silicon Valley explained in an online post that an officer noticed traffic backing up behind a self-driving vehicle going 24mph on a street with a 35mph speed limit”.

The incident, which didn’t result in a ticket for Google, has generated jokes about the future being full of self-driving cars jamming the highways, just like Grandpa.

Mountain View Police stated that they have regular meetings with the tech giant to ensure that the vehicles are operating safely.

“California law allows self-driving cars to operated on roads with speed limits of 35 miles per hour or slower”.

For its part, the Google Self-Driving vehicle Project seemed proud of the whole affair.

The Google project responded in a blog post, saying it’s never received a ticket and adding, “Driving too slowly?”. The vehicle technically had no driver, but there are usually two operators in the Google cars capable of taking over if needed, and that was the case this time, the police official in charge of the traffic team, Sgt. Saul Jaeger, said in a telephone interview. Most of the cars were in self-driving mode when the accidents happened, and the other driver caused the accident.

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