Paul, The reason they only go 25 MPH is simply that Google wanted a car fast and so had to choose to classify them as NEV. Any other 4-wheeled vehicle would have needed crash testing which is not only expensive and difficult but also a lengthy process. It makes no sense if you are just creating a testing platform with a few hundred vehicles. Of course 25 MPH helps in getting slightly longer reaction times due to low speed, but that is not a concern for Google, they wanted experience with a self-driving platform in daily traffic situations and that is what they are getting, never mind that these vehicles can't go on the freeway - the freeway is not a very interesting place for a self-driving vehicle.
Cars being for sale or not has no bearing on the concerns from the posters stating that they do not want to be around self-driving cars, well in downtown Mountain View you can't avoid that... Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless office +1 408 383 7626 Skype: cor_van_de_water XoIP +31 87 784 1130 private: cvandewater.info http://www.proxim.com This email message (including any attachments) contains confidential and proprietary information of Proxim Wireless Corporation. If you received this message in error, please delete it and notify the sender. Any unauthorized use, disclosure, distribution, or copying of any part of this message is prohibited. -----Original Message----- From: EV [mailto:ev-boun...@lists.evdl.org] On Behalf Of paul dove via EV Sent: Monday, July 25, 2016 2:39 PM To: ev@lists.evdl.org Subject: [EVDL] Fwd: EVLN: GM's 1st 200mi EV will launch as adriverless(autonomous) Lyft platform While technically Google cars can drive around they only travel a max speed of 25mph. They are intended as couriers and they aren't for sale as far as I know. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
