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Google Autonomous Car Pulled Over for Poky Driving
A police officer in Mountain View, Calif., stopped one of Google Inc.’s self-driving cars last week because it was traveling only 24 mph in a 35 mph zone on one of the city’s major thoroughfares.
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A police officer in Mountain View, Calif., stopped one of Google Inc.’s self-driving cars last week because it was traveling only 24 mph in a 35 mph zone on one of the city’s major thoroughfares.
The police report says the car was pulled over because it was causing a traffic backup. Google’s test vehicles currently are limited to a top speed of 25 mph because the company says it wants them to appear “friendly and approachable, rather than zooming scarily through neighborhood streets.”
"Driving too slowly?" Google later joked on its company blog. "Bet humans don’t get pulled over for that too often.”
Maybe not, but the police report says the officer “educated” the Google car’s occupants that impeding traffic is a violation of the California Vehicle Code. No ticket was issued.
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