Stopping again at former Castle Air Base to take more airplane pictures at the air museum, we noticed an 8' sight-blocking fence across the street from where our RV was parked. Well "sight blocking" is for people under 8' but not so for 12' high RV's.
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From inside the RV, we were able to see cute little white cars with black domes on top.
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| Google Self-Driving Car (SDC) |
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At first we wondered if they were the Google Street View cars but the dome on top is different.
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We did a little Googling (ain't that appropriate!) and found that this facility is called a Google Self-Driving Car (SDV) Test Center.
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| Google Street View Car |
We did a little Googling (ain't that appropriate!) and found that this facility is called a Google Self-Driving Car (SDV) Test Center.
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From our vantage point we could see a SDV travel through a traffic circle,
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| A self-driving car can avoid a biker and maneuver a round-about (can I?)) |
several stop lights,
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| Google Traffic Lights |
and around a bicyclist.
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| A bit of congestion: 2 SDC's, a bicyclist, and another driver |
I'm looking forward to the day that I can have one of those cute little cars doing the driving for me.
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In my research, two recent articles were full of juicy details. The 2nd article even has the RV park in the background of one of the pictures.
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Click these links:
