Google's Autonomous cars complete 300,000 miles without an accident

Re:Google's Autonomous cars complete 300,000 miles without a... by ridiculous_fish on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @04:43PM (#4352187)

I'm guessing that more accidents happen in intersections than on the highway. My understanding is that Google's self-driving cars are currently limited to highways and known-course driving.

I don't think it's going to do a very good job driving in San Francisco city streets (but then, who does?)

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Re:Google's Autonomous cars complete 300,000 miles without a... by danweber on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @06:26PM (#4352707)

From what I know it's always known-course. If you were to get a google car today for your commute (you can't), you would first drive to and from work yourself, probably more than once, so it can map everything.

Knowing where there should be a stop sign and traffic lights significantly reduces risks. The computer still needs to be able to learn when new ones appear, of course.

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Re:Google's Autonomous cars complete 300,000 miles without a... by protomyth on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @10:30PM (#4353554)

It would also help with some roads that are incorrectly marked on the GPS. There is a highway in ND that has a 4 mile stretch that has a miss marked road. Multiple GPS maps show the road about 100 yards west of where it actually is. Damn annoying driving 4 miles with the GPS constantly saying "Get back on the road". Thought it was just a garbage GPS map, but it happened on a couple of models.

Guess I really don't have to worry until they figure out how to get the car to drive on snow covered roads.

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