Last time I hear so many things about self-driving cars and technologies that can make them possible. Google inc. is one of the companies which has reached some results in self-driving technologies – its testing cars have passed through about 250,000 miles of testing.
According to the Detroit News executives of Google are approaching car makers about building the self-driving vehicles.
"From giving the technology away to licensing it to working with Tier 1s, Tier 2s, working with the OEMs, building a car with them, everything is open and we're trying to figure out which paths make the most sense," said Google project manager Anthony Levandowski last week at the Society of Automotive Engineers World Congress in Detroit. "We're talking to basically every car company to see what their level of excitement is and how do we work with them."
Levandowski says Google is racing forward to get self-driving vehicles on the road as soon as possible. It has begun talking to insurance companies to figure out how much it might cost to insure a self-driving car, according to CNET. One of the sticky issues: If a self-driving vehicle causes an accident, is the driver responsible or the company that made the vehicle?
But Google officials say they will prove that computer-driven vehicles are safer than those operated by humans, thus insurance prices should be lower.
