Google car pulled over for being too slow

Google car pulled over for being too slow

 

A Google self driving car has been pulled over in the US for driving too slowly, making many people think that their self driving vehicles may be overly cautious. 

The police reports from the Mountain View Police department has stated that their officer has noticed that was backing up behind the slow moving vehicle, as the Google vehicle was driving at 24mph in a 35mph zone. 

 

      “The officer stopped the car and made contact with the operators to learn more about how it was choosing speeds along certain roadways and to educate the operators about impeding traffic,”

 

Google joked that human driven vehicles are very rarely pulled over for driving too slowly, saying that this prototype vehicle was capped to a maximum speed of 25mph for safety reasons and has said that in their 1.2 million miles of driving experience that none of their vehicles have been ticketed. 

 

  Driving too slowly? Bet humans don’t get pulled over for that too often.

We’ve capped the speed of our prototype vehicles at 25mph for safety reasons. We want them to feel friendly and approachable, rather than zooming scarily through neighborhood streets.

 

  

Right now many people have claimed that Google’s self driving cars are too polite and overly cautious while driving, though it is very difficult to argue these as bad points for a vehicle in which the human driver is not in control. 

Over 90% of all car accidents are caused by human error, so it is though that the addition of self driving cars to today’s roads will help to greatly reduce the amount of accidents ans casualties on the road. 

 

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