Google contracted with Roush to build prototypes of fully autonomous vehicles, in which two people sit abreast in the tiny pod-shaped car, which has a flexible windshield for safety and is topped by a spinning cone that helps navigation. The electric vehicles, unveiled in May, are limited to a maximum speed of 25 miles per hour and do away with several decades-long constants in motoring: the steering wheel, brake pedal and accelerator pedal.
http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2014/07/01/333213.htm
But here is the strangest thing... these prototypes are being built without crumple zones, because Google is not half as smart as they think they are, and figures it has designed a car that will avoid collisions.
Those of us who drive cars, and not live in a bubble, realize it's not you who causes or avoids every possible collision on the roads, it's the rest of the vehicles in your area, roughly 50 yards in every direction around you, more, the faster they or you are moving
http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2014/07/01/333213.htm
But here is the strangest thing... these prototypes are being built without crumple zones, because Google is not half as smart as they think they are, and figures it has designed a car that will avoid collisions.
Those of us who drive cars, and not live in a bubble, realize it's not you who causes or avoids every possible collision on the roads, it's the rest of the vehicles in your area, roughly 50 yards in every direction around you, more, the faster they or you are moving
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