Google's Driverless Cars Now Rolling In the Heart of Texas

MarkWhittington notes that, as reported by The Wall Street Journal, Google has started testing its self-driving cars in Austin. These driverless cars, loaded with the sensors, GPS transponders, and cameras, are now in service in "an area northeast and north of downtown Austin. The purpose of the test drives is to see if the car's software works in driving conditions outside of California and to develop a detailed map of Austin city streets. Each self-driving car has two human drivers ready to assume manual control if something goes wrong."

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Question

[Mr D from 63]

How many drivers does it take to drive a driverless car?

Re:Question

[tompaulco]

Are Texan Drivers worse than Californian Drivers?

I've seen people in Texas driving slow who will pull over to the side to allow faster traffic to go by. This sort of courtesy may just blow the autonomous cars' circuitry after dealing with California drivers.
I expect that the human backup drivers are still from California, so it is unlikely they will be able to take over in that situation either.

Texas?

[gtall]

It shouldn't take long for some of the inhabitants to consider this to be the tip of the Obama Administration spear to take over Texas so they can remove their guns, impose environmental regulations, force money to be spent on education. And this right after the Jade Helm 15 exercises. They are probably Islamic driverless cars.