Google autonomous cars in Nevada test

The American state of Nevada, Google has licensed for use with its autonomous car, that is the way to go. That makes Nevada the second state in which the Google car can test. Earlier tests found in California lwa place.

Google is going in total, with three of its autonomous cars on the road, so reports the Associated Press. The vehicles will get a special red plate with a lemniscate, the symbol of infinity. According to Bruce Breslow of the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles fits the character well in ‘the car of the future’. At the moment the cars come on the market is a green plate in the life called.

Before the licenses were issued, the cars are tested on different places, such as busy highways and the busy ‘strip’ in Las Vegas. The license prescribes that at any time two people in the vehicle should sit: one person behind the steering wheel, which can, if necessary, intervene, and one person in the passenger seat with a window that the planned route to display.

The issue of the licence was in line with expectations; last year was in Nevada already passed a law that allows autonomous vehicles on the road to drive on. Google has also heavily lobbied to be the traffic law in Nevada on this plane, adapted to get.

At the end of march made Google announced that it already with success 200.000 testmijlen has travelled with the autonomous vehicles. It comes to Toyota Priuses equipped with cameras, sensors and lasers to the position relative to the road and other traffic to determine. According to Google, can such vehicles in the future, the number of road deaths significantly reduce.