Sci/Tech Google's driverless cars designed to exceed speed limit

[tom_mai78101]

Google's self-driving cars are programmed to exceed speed limits by up to 10mph (16km/h), according to the project's lead software engineer.

Dmitri Dolgov told Reuters that when surrounding vehicles were breaking the speed limit, going more slowly could actually present a danger, and the Google car would accelerate to keep up.

Google's driverless prototypes have been widely tested on roads in the US.

The UK will allow driverless cars on public roads from 2015.

Google first announced its driverless car division in 2010, and has been testing its technology in modified cars built by other manufacturers.

The cars have travelled on more than 300,000 miles of open road, mostly in California.

Google's driverless cars designed to exceed speed limit

Google's driverless cars are programmed to occasionally exceed speed limits by up to 10mph, says the project's lead engineer.

www.bbc.com

 

[Slapshot136]

I wish I could get one in the U.S. for use soon...

 

[tom_mai78101]

Is it getting finalized soon in the US?

 

[FireCat]

Would you receive a speeding ticket? LOL

 

[tom_mai78101]

Would you receive a speeding ticket? LOL

In the US (according to my mom), you don't usually get a speeding ticket if you're less than or equal to 9 m/h above the speed limit regulated in the States. If you just so happened to be above the speed limit by 10 m/h, and a police is nearby monitoring your speeds, the police will chase you down, signal you to get off the road, and flash a ticket to you.

 

[FireCat]

speed limit by 10

Yeah, but... If your driverless car do get over. Would you get the ticket or, the car ? LOL

 

[Slapshot136]

Yeah, but... If your driverless car do get over. Would you get the ticket or, the car ? LOL

what part of no tickets when not going excessively (10+) over did you not understand? or are you implying some sort of rogue programmer who sets it to +50 max, in which case I think the answer is pretty clear... - your saying a "what if" but not fully explaining it - it depends - what if the car was grabbed by a random fast-flying black hole? does the ticket even matter at that point?

 

[Varine]

No more tickets or DUI's, police gonna be running out of shit to do.

 

[FireCat]

flying black hole? does the ticket even matter at that point?

It is not still considered legal. "The legal limit is the amount on the sign" In most places, you can get away with going 5-10 mph over the limit, but it is not considered legal !
Do you understand?
Btw: The car could get an Defect / Malfunction. So. ones again "who would get the ticket ?"

 

[tom_mai78101]

It is not still considered legal. "The legal limit is the amount on the sign" In most places, you can get away with going 5-10 mph over the limit, but it is not considered legal !
Do you understand?
Btw: The car could get an Defect / Malfunction. So. ones again "who would get the ticket ?"

If you stay at speed limit, but other cars are speeding past you, you are endangering the other drivers, and you will be charged with a ticket or worse if you are caught being slower than 80% traffic, even if everyone else is going above speed limit.*

*Citations needed

 

[FireCat]

If you stay at speed limit, but other cars are speeding past you, you are endangering the other drivers, and you will be charged with a ticket or worse if you are caught being slower than 80% traffic, even if everyone else is going above speed limit.*

*Citations needed

If everyone else stay within the speed limit "But you don't"
you get the ticket ! But now its about driverless cars. Who will be charged ?

 

[tom_mai78101]

If everyone else stay within the speed limit "But you don't"
you get the ticket ! But now its about driverless cars. Who will be charged ?

Ignore that scenario, because everybody knows what's going to happen for that. I want you to reverse your scenario with "you are being slow, while everybody is passing you" and start considering that ONLY.

Driverless cars need to wait until full regulations has been assessed by state and federal legislature. Because we don't have them yet for all states, driverless cars are still in development, and cannot pass the production phase unless otherwise.

 

[FireCat]

being slow.

Define "slow"

 

[Varine]

I would like to backtrack to the black hole scenario.

 

[Slapshot136]

Btw: The car could get an Defect / Malfunction. So. ones again "who would get the ticket ?"

and how is that different from the car getting a defect where the acceleration pedal gets caught in the "down" position as far as tickets go?

and it's not like everything that is legal/illegal makes sense anyways, so what exactly are you trying to say?

I would like to backtrack to the black hole scenario.

so if you accelerate uncontrollably due to a black hole, do you get a ticket?

 

[FireCat]

and how is that different from the car getting a defect where the acceleration pedal gets caught in the "down" position as far as tickets go?

So, do you have an answer ? Hmm

 

[Slapshot136]

So, do you have an answer ? Hmm

yes - the answer is it depends on the conditions of your "if", as does pretty much any answer to any "if this unrealistic thing" question.

 

[FireCat]

If it happens that it means "It's possible"

 

[tom_mai78101]

Define "slow"

Relative speed differentials of 10 miles/hour between 1 control car and a group of moving cars, regardless if the cars are on a speed limit of 30 m/h or 40 m/h roadway.

You are Car A, which is the control car, or the car you are in control of, or the driverless car that you, as a passenger/driver, are currently in.

Car Group is faster than Car A by 10 m/h, Car A is dangerous. Car Group is slower than Car A by 10 m/h, Car A is dangerous.

 

[FireCat]

Car Group is faster than Car A by 10 m/h.

Depends which road you drive on.