China Catches Up With Google's Driverless Car 258
mikejuk writes "While Google makes headlines with its driverless car and even manages to lobby Nevada to legalize driverless cars on the public road — China quietly pushes ahead on its own. A driverless car navigated 286km of expressway all on its own. Using nothing but a pair of video cameras and laser rangefinders, i.e. no GPS, it managed to arrive safely even through fog. The computer vision based approach means that at the moment it can only drive during daylight hours. Google might need to speed up ..."
Re:Google released info on accident? (Score:4, Informative)
Last I heard google has not commented on the accident.
It was in the first article on any news site:
A Google spokesperson gave us this quote about the accident: "Safety is our top priority. One of our goals is to prevent fender-benders like this one, which occurred while a person was manually driving the car."
http://www.businessinsider.com/googles-self-driving-cars-get-in-their-first-accident-2011-8 [businessinsider.com]