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> we’re going to instantly leap from that to fully autonomous driving If you had lived and owned a car in Mountain View, you would have been used to driving al
by mortehu 11y ago
> we’re going to instantly leap from that to fully autonomous driving
If you had lived and owned a car in Mountain View, you would have been used to driving alongside fully autonomous cars for years now, and the move wouldn't seem nearly as instant.
- ericd 11y agoYeah, they're everywhere around here, including the tiny pods that can only go 30 mph and don't seem to have a steering wheel.
- austenallred 11y agoI legitimately can't tell if this is a sarcastic comment... I don't live in Mountain View, but haven't seen any of these on my visits.
- ericd 11y agoNot sarcastic :-). I see one or two almost every day. Their number seems to have been increasing rapidly in recent months, have you visited recently?
- austenallred 11y agoIt's been about a month. I guess I just missed them. As a side-note, I love that I can't tell if a comment is true or sarcastic-faux-science-fiction, and it ends up being true. We live in a really cool time.
- ericd 11y agoIt might just be where I walk vs where you walk - I usually see them on Shoreline and between Shoreline and Castro, sometimes on El Camino in that span. A few weeks ago I saw one of the slow pod cars holding up a bunch of traffic in he right lane on El Camino because its top speed is too low for the flow there. :-D
- rockinghigh 11y agohttp://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/06/25/googles-autonomous-pod-cars-hit-the-road/29292169/ http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/06/25/googles-autono...
- jfoster 11y agoI found a YouTube video from someone who seems to have encountered one: https://youtu.be/FKETvrCZhzU https://youtu.be/FKETvrCZhzU I'm surprised there aren't more videos like this, though.
- ezarowny 11y agoI haven't seen any of the pod cars yet but I've seen a couple of the Lexus SUV's. I've even seen a few in San Francisco but they're not Google's. I seem to end up biking next to the same one every week or so in Dogpatch. It's a dark red Nissan Leaf without any labeling. I wonder what company owns it.