[Nfbf-l] Self-driving Google car pulled over for driving too slowly in California.

[Alan Dicey]

Dear Friends,
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Alan
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Self-driving Google car pulled over for driving too slowly in California.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, November  13 (UPI) --.
A California police officer pulled a car over for driving 10 mph under the 
speed limit yesterday only to find out it was a self-driving Google car. 
The Mountain View Police Department in the San Francisco Bay Area said an 
officer noticed traffic backing up behind a slow moving car on Thursday and 
pulled over what turned out to be a Google Autonomous Vehicle.  The incident 
was photographed by Aleksandr Milewski, who shared his photo on Twitter. 
The officer 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, the police department said in a blog post.
The Google self-driving cars operate under the Neighborhood Electric Vehicle 
Definition per 385.5 of the California Vehicle Code and can only be operated 
on roadways with speed limits at or under 35 mph.  In this case, it was 
lawful for the car to be traveling on the street as El Camino Real is rated 
at 35 mph, the department said.
Google's headquarters are in Mountain View, California, a few miles from 
where the car was pulled over by police.  The Mountain View Police 
Department said in a blog post that it meets regularly with Google to make 
sure their cars operate safely in the community.
The Google Self-Driving Car Project said in a Google plus post the speed of 
the prototype vehicles is capped at 25 mph for safety reasons.  Like this 
officer, people sometimes flag us down when they want to know more about our 
project.  After 1.2 million miles of autonomous driving (that's the human 
equivalent of 90 years of driving experience), we're proud to say we've 
never been ticketed! the project said.  Driving too slowly? Bet humans don't 
get pulled over for that too often.