Google’s Autonomous Car Is Programmed to Speed Because It’s Safer

ego - drive cars are come , some the great unwashed are freak out out about them . Here ’s something that might not put those mass at ease : Accordingto a Google applied scientist , the auto are designed to outperform the speed bound . Do n’t vex though ! There ’s in reality a honest reason for it .

Dmitri Dolgov , the lead computer software engineer on the project , enounce that the car is programme to go about 10 mph over the focal ratio limit . While no one ’s go to confuse the Google car with a retarding force - racing blistering perch , it is interesting that the company would deliberately design the auto to break the law . The reason is safe : When car all around the Google car are hurry , go slower than those motorcar would actually make drive conditions more dangerous .

While it cause horse sense , it also bring up an interesting issue around how exactly autonomous cars will share the road with non - autonomous gondola . The biggest guard issue that Google ’s cars will see are human drivers , who will still be making the same stunned mistakes even if Google ’s navigation is flawless . And once all the elevator car on the route are autonomous — which could go on , finally — the Google gondola wo n’t ask to speed any longer . Because every auto will be programmed to go the “ speed boundary , ” ripe ? [ ReutersviaBBC word ]

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