{"id":40957,"date":"2014-06-02T18:56:50","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T13:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=40957"},"modified":"2020-04-01T17:01:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T11:31:12","slug":"public-test-drive-google-self-driving-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2014\/06\/public-test-drive-google-self-driving-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"First Public Test Drive of Google Self-Driving Cars [Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google allowed\u00a0volunteers to join the first public test drive of the\u00a0Google Self-Driving Car! This mini car is for real and is now <a href=\"https:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2014\/05\/just-press-go-designing-self-driving.html\" rel=\"noopener\">testing<\/a> outside Google labs in Mountain View, California, USA. If you live nearby, you might get lucky being the first few to try out how the future cars might look like.<\/p>\n<h2>Google Self-Driving Cars<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40958\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/self-driving-car.jpg\" alt=\"self driving car\" width=\"400\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/self-driving-car.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/self-driving-car-150x125.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/self-driving-car-300x251.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is a 2 seater vehicle with seat belts. Don&#8217;t be surprised as there is no steering wheel in these cars. In fact there is no brake or accelerator pedal if you decide to use it. There are\u00a0start \/ stop buttons, a location map on screen and that is it. The smart sensors and on-board computers drive the car.<\/p>\n<p>So how fast will it go? They have blocked the speed at 25mph as of now. This video showcases the new look of the Google Self-Driving Cars.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe title=\"A First Drive\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CqSDWoAhvLU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Amazing technology of the future is being developed at Google and it may not be too far when it goes into commercial production.<\/p>\n<p>If you need more information about these self driving cars, see the Safety tester at work driving these cars and explaining the technology behind it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe title=\"A Ride in the Google Self Driving Car\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TsaES--OTzM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google allowed\u00a0volunteers to join the first public test drive of the\u00a0Google Self-Driving Car! This mini car is for real and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":40958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-40957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","category-google","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}