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**RenyBontes** · 05-10-2012, 06:26 PM

It's ONE car driven for how long? 140,000 miles in Nevada, probably on straight roads and mostly out in the desert highway.

No, it's been driven extensively in city streets. There was a feature about it on a TV programme presented by Stephan Hawking over here a while ago. I couldn't find a video of that, but I did find this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp9KBrH8H04

From the article that was posted:

Engineers at Google have previously tested the car on the streets of California, including crossing San Francisco's Golden Gate bridge.

How many people do you know who have driven for years without incident, I know a lot, and luckily for me don't know anyone who has had a fatal car crash, maybe we should all get me to drive everyone around as I've been driving for 18 years and I'm still here! lol. The figure of fatal crashes is something like 1 for every million miles driven. So it's going to take along time for that single google car to reach the average fatal crash figure, and only then has it passed the "crazy human drivers" (yes I know not a very accurate statistical measurement). Add 1 million google cars and then we will see what happens. So how long does it have to be driven for for you to be convinced that it's safe? It's sounds to me like you are never going to be convinced.

05-10-2012, 06:26 PM	#44
RenyBontes Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 428 Senior Member	It's ONE car driven for how long? 140,000 miles in Nevada, probably on straight roads and mostly out in the desert highway. No, it's been driven extensively in city streets. There was a feature about it on a TV programme presented by Stephan Hawking over here a while ago. I couldn't find a video of that, but I did find this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp9KBrH8H04 From the article that was posted: Engineers at Google have previously tested the car on the streets of California, including crossing San Francisco's Golden Gate bridge. How many people do you know who have driven for years without incident, I know a lot, and luckily for me don't know anyone who has had a fatal car crash, maybe we should all get me to drive everyone around as I've been driving for 18 years and I'm still here! lol. The figure of fatal crashes is something like 1 for every million miles driven. So it's going to take along time for that single google car to reach the average fatal crash figure, and only then has it passed the "crazy human drivers" (yes I know not a very accurate statistical measurement). Add 1 million google cars and then we will see what happens. So how long does it have to be driven for for you to be convinced that it's safe? It's sounds to me like you are never going to be convinced.
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