Google unleashes its self-driving car - It is programmed to speed for your safety
Yes! Google is at it. Hopefully this will get to West Africa soon, so we can reduce the enormous range of traffic and accident. Read an article by Techspot below; We've been told all along that self-driving cars are safer that today's human-powered vehicles. By eliminating human error, these autonomous vehicles are expected to drastically reduce the number of auto accidents on public roadways. What you might be surprised to learn, however, is that some of these cars are being programmed to break the law by speeding. How can that be safe? As Google lead software engineer Dmitri Dolgov told Reuters during a recent interview, their autonomous car is programmed to stay within the speed limit most of the time. But when the traffic around you is exceeding the speed limit, it can actually be dangerous to maintain the slower (legal) speed. Under such conditions, Google has programmed its self-driving car to go up to 10 mph above the speed limit to better keep pace with traffic.