Google Gets License For Driverless Car. Google's autonomous cars can now lawfully be tested on Nevada roadways, using the first such license issued in the U.S.
Google has been granted a license to test its experimental self-driving cars on Nevada roads, the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles said on Tuesday. The agency said the license is the first issued in the U.S. under new state laws and regulations that permit autonomous vehicle development. Having satisfied the Nevada DMV's Autonomous Review Committee with demonstrations on state freeways, highways, and roads in Carson City and Las Vegas, Google has been licensed to operate its driverless cars and has been supplied with special red license plates bearing an infinity symbol. DARPA makes finding software vulnerabilities fun. December 06, 2013, 4:56 PM — The U.S.
Department of Defense may have found a new way to scan millions of lines of software code for vulnerabilities, by turning the practice into a set of video games and puzzles and having volunteers do the work. Having gamers identify potentially problematic chunks of code could help lower the work load of trained vulnerability analysts by "an order of magnitude or more," said John Murray, a program director in SRI International's computer science laboratory who helped create one of the games, called Xylem. DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has set up a site, called Verigames, that offers five free games that can be played online or, in Xylem's case, on an Apple iPad. Verigames is set up in a manner similar to other online crowd-sourcing projects, such as SETI@homel, which has users' computers scan for extraterrestrial signals, and Fold.it, which invites participants to play online puzzles for protein folding.
Focuz. A Test Drive of the Most Advanced Driverless Cars. A silver BMW 5 Series is weaving through traffic at roughly 120 kilometers per hour (75 mph) on a freeway that cuts northeast through Bavaria between Munich and Ingolstadt.
I’m in the driver’s seat, watching cars and trucks pass by, but I haven’t touched the steering wheel, the brake, or the gas pedal for at least 10 minutes. The BMW approaches a truck that is moving slowly. To maintain our speed, the car activates its turn signal and begins steering to the left, toward the passing lane. Just as it does, another car swerves into the passing lane from several cars behind. The BMW quickly switches off its signal and pulls back to the center of the lane, waiting for the speeding car to pass before trying again. Putting your life in the hands of a robot chauffeur offers an unnerving glimpse into how driving is about to be upended.
The allure of automation for car companies is huge. More comprehensive autonomy could reduce traffic accidents further still. Google Preparing Driverless Cars for U.S. Roads, Laws. Nevada Gov.
Brian Sandoval takes a spin in a driverless car in 2011 in Carson City, Nev. Since Nevada became the first state to allow testing of driverless cars, California, Florida and the District of Columbia have followed. (AP) PALO ALTO, Calif.— Drivers here already gawk at Google’s self-driving car zipping around the freeways. In California, Nevada, Florida and the District of Columbia, the future of transportation is now: All four jurisdictions are setting ground rules for self-driving cars on the roads. The trend is spreading. “(California, Nevada and Florida) are ahead of us, and aren’t we the automotive capitol of the world?” Legislation is just the beginning. That could be as soon as 2017, predicted Google’s co-founder Sergey Brin at California’s bill-signing last year.
Changes in law Legally speaking, self-driving cars are probably legal everywhere already. For as much as these laws allow, they raise more questions than they answer. Google gets license to operate driverless cars in Nevada. Nevada approves a license for "autonomous vehicles" that drive themselvesGoogle will test out its self-driving technology in the state; other companies may followThe company says its cars have driven 200,000 miles solo without accidents Nevada's new red license plate feature an infinity symbol (CNN) -- If you want to salute, race or flirt with other drivers in Nevada, you could soon be out of luck with some cars.
That's because on Monday, Nevada became the first to approve a license for "autonomous vehicles" -- in other words, cars that cruise, twist and turn without the need for a driver -- on its roads. The license goes to Google, the Silicon Valley technology giant known more for its search engine and e-mail service that nonetheless has been known to dive into other big ideas such as space elevators to Internet-enabled glasses. Autonomous Technologies and Robotics. A Test Drive of the Most Advanced Driverless Cars. Gearing up to save lives, reduce costs, resource consumption. Autos on autopilot: the evolution of the driverless car. 5 August 2013 | By Jon Excell Jon Excell reports on the gradual process of developing a truly driverless vehicle for the world’s roads From Michael Knight’s KITT to the Batmobile, the car that drives itself is a well-worn staple of science fiction.
And like many other staples of science fiction, it’s a technology that’s now edging ever closer to reality. Indeed, car-makers, technology suppliers and transport authorities around the world are increasingly viewing the autonomous car as the key to a safer, less congested and more energy efficient road system. Across Europe, automobile companies including BMW, Volvo and Bosch have all recently tested driverless cars on public roads, and regard autonomous technology as being a key area of their future business.
Intelligent autonomous systems could one day remove drivers from the equation “Car-makers tend to talk of driverless cars as an evolutionary process ‘The German autobahn is a very challenging environment,’ said Fausten. Nikola Tesla and ZPE.