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Google’s Self-Driving Car Moves to City Streets
Google Inc. says it has shifted tests of its autonomous car technology from relatively straightforward expressways to more complex city streets.
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Google Inc. says it has shifted tests of its autonomous car technology from relatively straightforward expressways to more complex city streets.
In a blog, the company reports it has logged thousands of miles on the streets of hometown Mountain View, Calif., since last August.
Google says it has improved its system's software to detect hundreds of distinct objects simultaneously, including a stop sign held up by a crossing guard and a bicyclist gesturing to indicate a possible turn. The company says what appears a chaotic and random street scene to the human eye is fairly predictable to a computer.
There are still "lots of problems" to solve, according to Google. It says it wants to teach its car to navigate more streets in Mountain View before testing it in another city. The company estimates its self-driving vehicles have now covered about 700,000 autonomous miles.
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