Google unveiled plans to build its own
self-driving car that it hopes to begin testing in the coming months.
"They won't have a steering wheel, accelerator pedal, or brake pedal...
because they don't need them. Our software and sensors do all the work,"
Google's Chris Urmson said in a blog post. Urmson said Google plans
to build about 100 prototype vehicles, "and later this summer, our
safety drivers will start testing early versions of these vehicles that
have manual controls." He added, "If all goes well, we'd like to run a
small pilot program here in California in the next couple of years."
For Google, the car marks a shift away from adapting vehicles made by
others in its quest to pioneer individual transport that needs only a
stop-and-go function. "It was inspiring to start with a blank sheet of
paper and ask, 'What should be different about this kind of vehicle?'"
the post said. The top speed of the battery-powered prototypes will be
40 kilometres per hour and are designed for utility, not luxury. "We're
light on creature comforts, but we'll have two seats (with seatbelts), a
space for passengers' belongings, buttons to start and stop, and a
screen that shows the route -- and that's about it," Urmson said. The
blog post a photo of a prototype and an artist's rendering -- both
rounded bug-looking vehicles. "We took a look from the ground up of
what a self-driving car would look like," Google co-founder Sergey Brin
said at a conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. "The reason
I'm so excited about these prototypes and the self-driving car project
in general is the ability to change the world and the community around
you," Brin added. Until now Google has been re-fitting Lexus and Honda
cars to work as self-driving ones. In an interview, Urmson said the new
Google cars will have numerous safety features learned from the
company's research. "In our car there is no steering wheel so we have
to design really fundamental capabilities," he said. "So we have
effectively two motors and they work so if one of them fails the other
can steer, so the car can always control where it's going, and similar
with brakes." In addition to crash protection for the occupant, the car
has features to avoid pedestrians and other road users.
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