Google’s Robotics Car Project

For these recent years, Google has been working on a big project, innovating new technology that makes people’s life better, more secure and more comfortable with Self-Driving car. People who have ridden them often quickly response that it’s obvious that computer is a far better driver than human. Business Insider explains that Google uses lasers and radar as sensor to monitor and process immense number of inputs as well as react and responses to situation faster than human ever could.

This project is still unfinished but the day for us to enjoy this technology is drawing near. Google has so far making a great progress, the cars under the computer control have been driven for over 500,000 miles without accidents. However, Google still have several enticing challenges to work out, such as, driving in snow, unmapped roads, driving through construction zones, accident zones and other situations. This challenges are not easy to dealt with, so the “drawing near” I mentioned earlier is equal “several years to take” but apart from this let’s just enjoy the video below.

In the short video, a blind man walks out of his house and gets to one of Google's robotic Cars, equipped with high-tech device and tool. The man, Steve Mahan says, "Where this would change my life is to give me the independence and the flexibility to go the places I both want to go and need to go when I need to do those things”. At the end, Google says Mahan is the first customer of Google's self-driving car, calling him "self-driving car user #0000000001". He is really lucky right?.

So how is your feeling with this great technology, imagine going anywhere without road planning, imagine going a long trip with a car without even driving it, you can texting, playing with your kids and enjoy the trip along the way. But hold on, what if the car hits others or accident occurs in a way the computer and robot do not recognise, who the police should blame? The robot? The computer? The car? Or Google?. Let’s wait for the answer.

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Ricky Mardian