Cop Stops Google Driverless Car For Moving Slow

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Agence France-Presse

Cop Stops Google Driverless Car For Moving Slow

World | Agence France-Presse | Updated: November 13, 2015 12:37 IST



San Francisco, United States: Google playfully posted a photo of a motorcycle cop pulling over one of it self-driving cars on Thursday for riding along at a cautious pace.

"Driving too slowly?" the self driving car team asked rhetorically in a message that accompanied a picture on its Google+ social network page. "Bet humans don't get pulled over for that too often."

Police in Google's home town of Mountain View in Silicon Valley explained in an online post that an officer noticed traffic backing up behind a self-driving car going 24 mph on a street with a 35 mph speed limit.

"As the officer approached the slow moving car he realized it was a Google Autonomous Vehicle," the police department said. "In this case, it was lawful for the car to be traveling on the street."

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[TexasTowelie]

1. That is a very fortunate car.

In a number of other places in America it would have been handcuffed, beaten and shot. Oops, it's a white car--nevermind.

[Ken Burch]

2. They should have put a black mannequin at the wheel and then taped what happened. n/t.

[24601]

7. So you are saying they should have created the appearance of a racist incident where it did not

exist? Just how does that help?

[Scuba]

3. Recced for the replies.

[Earth_First]

4. I was recently in court...

Awaiting my traffic ticket appearance listening to the cases ahead of me...a gentleman was called to appear on a ticket for "Traveling 62 in a 65 and Failure to Keep Right" -the entire courtroom scoffed at the charges...

[LiberalElite]

5. The first time I took the driving test I flunked for two reasons.

Driving too slowly was one of them. (The other was not looking both ways at a 4 way stop intersection.)

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. 24 in a 35? Was the car smoking a little something before heading out?

[tclambert]

10. Maybe it was trying to find a particular address.

[Nitram]

8. Damn, no one to beat up or shoot!

What's a cop to do?

[Javaman]

9. with driverless cars, traffic cops will become a thing of the past.

bring on the driverless cars!

[tclambert]

11. Who would you make the ticket out to? Google, Inc.? The programmer who wrote the code?

Skynet?

[romanic]

12. The cop didn't have anything more serious to attend to?

[PersonNumber503602]

13. I wonder if he knew from start it was a driverless car, and he was itching to mess with them

but then it came back to him that it was totally legal and he couldn't do it.