• Police stop google self-driving car
    • 13/11/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    A Google self-driving car was pulled over by police because the vehicle was traveling too slowly, according to police officials. The officer in Mountain View, California, noticed traffic backing up behind the prototype vehicle, which was traveling 24 mph in a 35 mph zone. After realising it was a Google [...]
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  • Google tests autonomous cars in Austin
    • 08/07/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Google has started testing its autonomous cars in Austin, Texas, increasing efforts to gather information on how its prototypes interact with the surrounding environment. Google has been testing self-driving cars since 2009, though until now most of the testing has been around its Silicon Valley headquarters in [...]
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  • Rival self-driving cars suffer near-miss
    • 26/06/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    A rare meeting between rival self-driving cars on a Californian road almost ended in a crash, Reuters reports. The robot cars, one made by Delphi Automotive and the other by Google, had their encounter on a busy road in Palo Alto. The Google car reportedly pulled out in front of the Delphi vehicle. The abrupt [...]
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  • Google testing on public roads
    • 18/05/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    This summer some of Googles autonomous cars will be tested on the roads around Mountain View, California, where the tech giant is based. Before now, the small vehicles have only driven on test tracks and have not mixed with regular traffic. Google has tested self-driving vehicles on public roads but all of them [...]
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  • Airbag development for Google’s car
    • 25/03/2015
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Google has been awarded a new patent which could see its driverless car come with airbags on the outside to protect pedestrians, Quartz has reported. In a new patent awarded to Google yesterday, the company outlined a system for external airbags and bumpers that could deploy in the event of an accident. One idea [...]
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