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Google Car Pulled Over For Driving Too Slow, Doesn't Get a Ticket (thenextweb.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the a-little-bit-faster-now dept.

New submitter slickwillie writes: A Google self-driving car was pulled over for going too slow. A photo uploaded to Facebook by Zandr Milewski shows one of Google's self-driving cars being pulled over by a Mountain View, California police officer. On on its Self-Driving Car Project page on Google+ the team wrote: "We’ve capped the speed of our prototype vehicles at 25mph for safety reasons. We want them to feel friendly and approachable, rather than zooming scarily through neighborhood streets. The Mountain View Police Department also commented on the traffic stop in a blog post saying in part: "...The officer stopped the car and made contact with the operators to learn more about how the car was choosing speeds along certain roadways and to educate the operators about impeding traffic per 22400(a) of the California Vehicle Code. The Google self-driving cars operate under the Neighborhood Electric Vehicle Definition per 385.5 of the California Vehicle Code and can only be operated on roadways with speed limits at or under 35 mph. In this case, it was lawful for the car to be traveling on the street as El Camino Real is rated at 35 mph."

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  1. Mixed by markdavis · · Score: 5, Funny

    >"Google Car Pulled Over For Driving Too Slow, Doesn't Get a Ticket "

    I think you mean "slowly" (echos of my HS English teacher are in my mind).

    I can think of many times I am driving I wish others would get pulled over for driving too slowly :)

    I do not look forward to the day of mixed autonomous vs. non-autonomous conflict on the road! At least I hope the autonomous vehicles are predictable..... somehow I doubt my motorcycle will be self-driving.

    1. Re:Mixed by the_Bionic_lemming · · Score: 3, Funny

      There will be no blood, because nothing on a car ever fails - especially computers.

      (frankly, I will be terrified when there are people texting while their 6 year old car is driving for them - my parents have a 2014 Cherokee latitude that's had 8 recalls)

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  2. Defeat by somenickname · · Score: 3, Funny

    There is a simple explanation for this. After being lost on El Camino Real for hours and hundreds of miles, the car simply lost its will to live and was looking for a safe-ish place to park for the night.

  3. Re:That's a first by burtosis · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've never heard of a cop pulling over a car for going too slowly. Never once in my life.

    How else do you harass stoned teenagers?

  4. Re:Bullshit by AmiMoJo · · Score: 4, Funny

    You don't bite the hand that feeds you.

    Someone should tell my cat.

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    const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
    SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
  5. Re:So, they're not fully tested yet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    These prototypes may not be ready for prime time. Personally, I wouldn't buy a car that can't cross the Bay Bridge.

    It is a truly intelligent car that refuses to take you to Oakland.