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California legalizes self-driving cars
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 26 - 09 - 2012

AlQa'dah 10, 1433, Sep 26, 2012, SPA -- California has legalized self-driving cars
for use on its roads, marking a major milestone in the move to
computer-controlled vehicles, dpa quoted the state's governor Jerry
Brown as saying.
Brown signed the legislation into law at a ceremony at the
headquarters of Google, the web software company that has taken the
lead in developing and integrating the complex technologies needed to
control a car on public roads without the need for human interaction.
"We're looking at science fiction becoming tomorrow's reality -
the self-driving car," Brown said, according to media reports
Wednesday. "Anyone who gets inside a car and finds out the car is
driving will be a little skittish, but they'll get over it."
The legislation SB1928 mandates California's Department of Motor
Vehicles to develop the specific regulation for the testing and
operation of the self-driving vehicles. Because of its size and
wealth, California has traditionally set the standards for US auto
regulations and Google CEO Sergey Brin predicted that driverless cars
would enter the mainstream within five years.
Google's driverless cars had already completed 300,000 miles
without incident, he said at the signing ceremony Tuesday. Brin
touted the computer controlled cars as being safer than ones driven
by humans. Because they are able to interact with each other, they
would also ease congestion by allowing cars to travel closer to one
another, and by dropping one passenger off and then going to pick up
another. That would be a great way to free up parking spaces, but
taxi drivers may not be too happy.
"I think the self-driving car can really dramatically improve the
quality of life for everyone," Brin said, providing transport to
people who can't drive themselves, such as the blind, disabled,
elderly and intoxicated.
"I expect that self-driving cars will be far safer than
human-driven cars," Brin said.


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