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Google’s self-driving car has no steering wheel

Victor Barreiro Jr.

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Google’s self-driving car has no steering wheel
Google's self-driving car prototypes reach a maximum speed of 40 kilometers per hour

MANILA, Philippines – No steering wheel or pedals – this is the touted promise of Google’s self-driving car prototypes.

With a maximum speed of 25 miles per hour (40 km/h), the Google-built prototype – announced by Google co-founder Sergey Brin at Recode.net’s Code Conference – is built specifically to be self-driving, lacking the normal implements for human control.

Unlike older versions of Google’s attempts at self-driving automobile technology, in which cars from Lexus and Toyota were retrofitted to become self-driving, this new prototype is designed by Google’s team to drive itself using computers and on-board sensors.

On a Google blog post by Chris Urmson, director of the self-driving car project, Urmson outllined what makes the project different, saying that the prototype has “sensors that remove blind spots, and they can detect objects out to a distance of more than two football fields in all directions, which is especially helpful on busy streets with lots of intersections.”

Watch a video of Google’s Self-Driving Car below:

Google plans on building around 100 prototypes, with safety drivers beginning testing early versions with manual controls. “If all goes well,” Urmson noted, “we’d like to run a small pilot program here in California in the next couple of years.”

“We’re going to learn a lot from this experience, and if the technology develops as we hope, we’ll work with partners to bring this technology into the world safely,” he added. – Rappler.com

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Victor Barreiro Jr.

Victor Barreiro Jr is part of Rappler's Central Desk. An avid patron of role-playing games and science fiction and fantasy shows, he also yearns to do good in the world, and hopes his work with Rappler helps to increase the good that's out there.