Driverless Car Legislation Passed in CA

Driverless Car Legislation Passed in CA

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 25th, 2012

Gov. Jerry Brown plans to sign legislation today, at the headquarters of Google, that will pave the way for driverless cars in California.
Google’s driverless cars may soon be legal in California. Legislation passed 37-0 in the Senate and 74-2 in the Assembly. It is now awaiting action by Gov. Jerry Brown, reports Bay Citizen.

A similar law won approval in Nevada last year, and Google is lobbying other states to follow suit. The company reported spending $8.95 million during the first half of 2012 to lobby federal officials on numerous issues, including the driverless car.
While Google had no immediate plans to commercially develop the system, the company hopes to develop a business which would market the system and the data behind it to automobile manufacturers, says Wikipedia.
Google says its self-driving cars have completed 300,000 miles of test-drives, under a “wide range of conditions,” all without any kind of accident. By comparison, the average U.S. driver has one accident roughly every 165,000 miles.

Slashgear explains how it works. It appears to be a combination of science and faith.
Does this mean we can get our “free zone” for mass transit back?