Google will have to return the steering wheel and pedals to their robotic cars.

Not so long ago, Google showed the concept of a robotic car, as seen by the developers themselves. No steering, no pedals - just the button "go" (figuratively speaking). In general, really the car of the future.

But the desire of developers is one thing, but the opinion of legislators is quite another. So, in the vehicle department of California, USA, we decided that Google would have to return the steering wheel and the pedal system to Google cars. According to officials, at any time the driver must have the physical ability to drive a vehicle.
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Of course, the corporation had to agree with this, and now the developers will return the vehicle control system to the person, they will only make the pedals and steering wheel small, temporary - to allow the driver to test this system during a test run on a prototype robot car.

Now California state legislators are working on new rules that regulate driving a car without a steering wheel and pedals. But before the practical implementation of such a law will take a long time. So it is necessary to ride on robotic cars with physical controls for a person.

By the way, the same lawmakers prohibit corporations from releasing robotic trucks and motorcycles for test rides on California roads. Apparently, the time has not come yet for such vehicles. As for cars, according to Google developers, they will begin to drive on the roads in a couple of years. Now Google is thinking about how robots cars can serve people as an automated service, for example, a taxi.

Via arstechnica