[Ohio-talk] Google Self-Driving Car Pulled Over by Police

[Cheryl Fields]

Funny, who gets the ticket, lol. cheryl

On 11/13/15, Deborah Kendrick via Ohio-talk <ohio-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> The self-driving pod caught the attention of traffic police while it was
> trundling down a street in California.
> Google
> Police pulled over one of Google's self-driving cars
> <http://www.cnet.com/news/google-takes-next-gen-autonomous-cars-to-the-stree
> ts/>  on Thursday for driving slowly in Mountain View, California, where
> the
> company has its headquarters -- but there was no traffic infraction.
> The cartoonishly curvacious vehicle was driving 24 miles per hour in a 35
> mph zone, police said, and was pulled over after a traffic officer noticed
> traffic backing up behind it.
> "As the officer approached the slow moving car he realized it was a Google
> autonomous vehicle," Mountain View Police Department wrote in a blog post
> <http://mountainviewpoliceblog.com/2015/11/12/inquiring-minds-want-to-know/>
> . "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 auto and computing industries believe self-driving cars
> <http://www.cnet.com/tags/self-driving-cars/>  are the future. But
> developing the technology is only one step along the road. Drivers,
> legislators and engineers also will have to reckon with issues like
> car-crash ethical choices
> <http://www.cnet.com/news/self-driving-car-advocates-tangle-with-messy-moral
> ity/> , insurance coverage and, as here, law enforcement. For traffic
> violations, Google has said
> <http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/googles-self-driving-
> cars-have-never-gotten-a-ticket/371172/>  the company itself should be
> responsible for tickets.
> Prototypes of Google's self-driving bubble cars are not an uncommon sight
> on
> roads in Mountain View. But the company is not alone in experimenting with
> autonomous vehicles -- many automakers are currently researching their own
> self-driving vehicles. Toyota has said that it hopes to make self-driving
> cars commercially available by 2020
> <http://www.cnet.com/news/toyota-expects-to-have-self-driving-cars-for-sale-
> by-2020/> , and MIT's Kevin Ashton, who divined the concept of
> network-connected objects known as the Internet of Things, this week
> predicted the vehicles will be commonplace by 2030
> <http://www.cnet.com/news/self-driving-cars-will-rule-the-roads-in-2030-says
> -internet-of-things-visionary/> .
>
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