{"id":39997,"date":"2014-05-04T18:06:13","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T22:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=39997"},"modified":"2014-05-04T18:06:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-04T22:06:13","slug":"google-self-driving-cars-hitting-city-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/google-self-driving-cars-hitting-city-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Self-Driving Cars Hitting City Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dk3oc1Hr62g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>As the next stage of development for <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2012\/08\/28\/googles-self-driving-cars-hit-300000-miles-i-saw-the-new-one-exclusive-videos-pics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google&#8217;s self-driving car project<\/a>, its self-driving vehicles have been hitting actual city streets&#8230; and all the unexpected obstacles that jump out into them. Well, I guess the point is that they <em>aren&#8217;t<\/em> hitting those obstacles. Apparently, they&#8217;re doing that better than humans themselves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since our&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2012\/08\/the-self-driving-car-logs-more-miles-on.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last update<\/a>, we\u2019ve logged thousands of miles on the streets of our hometown of Mountain View, Calif,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2014\/04\/the-latest-chapter-for-self-driving-car.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google writes<\/a>. A mile of city driving is much more complex than a mile of freeway driving, with hundreds of different objects moving according to different rules of the road in a small area. We\u2019ve improved our software so it can detect hundreds of distinct objects simultaneously\u2014pedestrians, buses, a stop sign held up by a crossing guard, or a cyclist making gestures that indicate a possible turn. A self-driving vehicle can pay attention to all of these things in a way that a human physically can\u2019t\u2014and it never gets tired or distracted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video above (you probably already have, I guess) to see some of the common obstacles these self-driving vehicles are avoiding while trucking around the city streets of Mountain View (which, admittedly, isn&#8217;t the most jam-packed, chaotic city in the world).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/tag\/Google\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google<\/a> notes that, while we humans may be thrown off by some &#8220;unexpected&#8221; moving objects in our roadway paths, these things are not as unpredictable as we tend to think.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As it turns out, what looks chaotic and random on a city street to the human eye is actually fairly predictable to a computer. As we\u2019ve encountered thousands of different situations, we\u2019ve built software models of what to expect, from the likely (a car stopping at a red light) to the unlikely (blowing through it).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not to say Google&#8217;s self-driving cars are ready for the big-time, or even the entire city of Mountain View, but Google is making progress. &#8220;We still have lots of problems to solve, including teaching the car to drive more streets in Mountain View before we tackle another town,&#8221; Google writes, &#8220;but thousands of situations on city streets that would have stumped us two years ago can now be navigated autonomously.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How far have Google&#8217;s self-driving vehicles driven on their own to date? A whopping 700,000 miles. 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