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Re:Germany plans highway test track for self-driving cars by TkTech on Monday January 26, 2015 @12:14PM (#8948146)
This doesn't matter at all to Google's cars. They are designed to ignore the speedlimit in favour of the real speed of traffic around it[1], as it has been proven to be far safer than slowing down. It's currently caped at 16km/h over but this is an arbitrary limit.

1: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28851996

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Re:Germany plans highway test track for self-driving cars by lttlrck on Monday January 26, 2015 @01:38PM (#8948684)
It must matter when there are only Google cars present.
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Re:Germany plans highway test track for self-driving cars by pests on Monday January 26, 2015 @02:14PM (#8948915)
That is actually a pretty interesting point you've made.
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Re:Germany plans highway test track for self-driving cars by mikeash on Monday January 26, 2015 @02:39PM (#8949067)
Yeah, it's a good one to think about. I imagine massive swings in traffic speed with a frequency of a few minutes as the cars get into various interesting feedback loops.
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