No Ticket, No Driver: Police Stop Google Self-Driving Car
MOUNTAIN VIEW (CBS/AP) -- A California police officer made a traffic stop, but wrote no ticket. There was no driver to give it to anyway.
Mountain View police said in a statement that an officer pulled over a Google self-driving car that was being tested on local roads Thursday.
The officer noticed the car going a road-clogging 24 mph in a 35 mph zone and realized it was a Google Autonomous Vehicle. He stopped the car and contacted its operators to let them know it was impeding traffic, but no citation was given.
Since this seems to be all over the internets, I might as well post here as well. pic.twitter.com/m7FD9pvRmi
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A person is required to sit behind the wheel of self-driving cars.
The Google project responded in a blog post, saying it's never received a ticket and adding, "Driving too slowly? Bet humans don't get pulled over for that too often."
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