Google’s driverless cars have been programmed to break the speed limits.
It reveals one of the project’s software developers for the Reuters news agency.
The reason that cars will drive too fast: it is considered safer.
Google announced its program with driverless cars 2010 Since then the company has had a number of prototype cars tested on roads across the United States. The cars have driven nearly 50,000 mil, mostly in California.
According to Dmitri Dolgov, one of the leading developers of software for the project, the cars have been programmed to be able to drive faster than the speed limit. The reason should be according to Dolgov security.
– When other cars nearby violate speed limits, it can be a danger to drive slower. Therefore accelerates Goggle car to hang with, he tells Reuters.
It is not about some serious speeding offenses that Google’s cars are guilty. They are programmed for maximum drive 10 mph, corresponding to 16 km / h over the legal limit.
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