The Google self driving car is one of the excellent innovative initiative by Google X labs. The software that will be specifically used to control the car is named Google Chauffeur. Google’s engineer Sebastian Thrun is presently managing the whole project. He is very famous for his few inventions including Google street view and robotic vehicle. There are other 15 expert engineers to improve the complete project.
It was quite tough to run an autonomous car on the road of USA. There are some important things like to be permitted by the Government. Nevada, a state of USA, first provides permission to run the autonomous car on the public road in 2011, 29th June. This permission was for Toyota Prius that will be used for Google’s Google self driving car experiment. In April, 2012 – Florida took the steps to permit this experiment. California was the third to permit Google to run their Google self driving car on the public road. There was also a very interesting condition that all the time there will be a human in the seat of driver!
According to Google x labs the car is quite expensive. The approximately cost is $150,000 with a laser radar system that costs $70,000. There will be a Velodyne 64-beam laser, it is a range finder. With very powerful combination the laser can generate very detail map, especially 3D map of its surrounding. With this 3D map, it can produce different types of essential data, high resolution map that help the car to run automatically.
Google x labs tested their invention on different cars (10 cars) including Toyota Prius, Audi TT and Lexus RX450h. There were also drivers; each driver was selected for each car. In every car, an engineer of the project took place in the passenger seat. The car ran on the road San Francisco’s Lombard Street, the run started from the Golden Gate Bridge. There was also a system to allow the driver so that they can control the car if needs.
Google published a YouTube video in 2012 (March), there was a common people named Steve Mahan who expressed his feelings after using Google self driving car. He passed few areas from his home quite successfully and returned home safely. He was excited and really he was satisfied with the service of Google x labs.
The team of this project colorfully declared that their cars have finished more than 300,000 miles without any accidents and problems. There were several cars that passed this huge amount length and in each car there was also a driver, although he didn’t take any step to run the car. The car was totally self – driven. Many U.S states already have started to pass laws for giving the permission to run this car on the public roads.
An accident took place in August 2011 with this driverless car. Although Google announced that in the time of accident the car was driven by the driver, it was not self – driven that time. Google x labs presently doesn’t make any plan to develop the car commercially, but they can announce any time to develop their Google self driving car commercially. People are really waiting for the exciting news and for this excellent innovation.
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