This article was published on May 15, 2015

Google’s self-driving cars will be tested on public roads in California this summer


Google’s self-driving cars will be tested on public roads in California this summer

Google’s self-driving cars have been given the green light to venture out onto public roads in Mountain View, California this summer.

Project Director Chris Urmson wrote in a company blog post that the prototype vehicles will have safety drivers present and will have a capped speed of 25mph.

Google says its self-driving cars have already logged close to one million miles on the road and will be running the same software as the self-driving Lexus RX450h fleet.

Earlier this week, it came to the fore that Google’s self-driving cars had been in eleven accidents but were not the sole cause of any.

➤  Green lights for our self-driving vehicle prototypes [Google]

Read next: Google’s Self-Driving Car Project could destroy taxis, Uber and Lyft because it knows everything about you

 

Get the TNW newsletter

Get the most important tech news in your inbox each week.

Also tagged with