Google Gets Driverless License For Nevada Roads

Fluffeh writes "On Monday, the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles approved Google's license application to test autonomous vehicles on the state's roads. The state had approved such laws back in February, and has now begun issuing licenses based on those regulations. The state previously outlined that companies that want to test such vehicles will need an insurance bond of $1 million and must provide detailed outlines of where they plan to test it and under what conditions. Further, the car must have two people in it at all times, with one behind the wheel who can take control of the vehicle if needed. The Autonomous Review Committee of the Nevada DMV is supervising the first licensing procedure and has now approved corresponding plates to go with it, complete with a red background and infinity symbol."

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1st Death....

[Anonymous Coward]

Probably some poor mechanic working on said car, When owner calls it home whilst still up on the Car Jack.

Re:Google Beta

[letherial]

"Is Google putting a gun to my head? No... I can choose not to use the internet."

better yet, you can use the internet but choose not to use any of googles services

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I Have Control (?)

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:Google Beta

[Centurix]

Goolash. Another fine dish tainted.

Re:2 people

[stephanruby]

Creating two new jobs for every single one lost. This sounds like this would be the work of some of very forward-looking Teamsters.

Re:Google Beta

[Chuck Chunder]

I wonder who's going to be immortalised as the first person to be killed by a computer-controlled car?

That sounds like the opposite of being immortalised.

Re:Google Beta

[tbird81]

Ahhh, the kilomile. Glad to see metric catching on.

For those interested there's 52 800 000 centifeet in a kilomile, and 83 milliinches in a microfoot.