Wednesday, 30 April 2014

Google: Driveless cars are mastering city maps

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Google says that cars it has
programmed to drive themselves have started to
master the navigation of city streets and the
challenges they bring, from jaywalkers to weaving bicyclists — a critical milestone for any commercially
available self-driving car technology.


Despite the progress over the past year, the cars
have plenty of learning to do before 2017, when
the Silicon Valley tech giant hopes to get the
technology to the public.

The promise is that, eventually, there would be no need for a driver.


None of the traditional automakers has been so
bullish.

Instead, they have rolled out features
incrementally, including technology that brakes
and accelerates in stop-and-go traffic or keeps cars
in their lanes.

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