Google demonstrates how its high-tech, tricked-outPrius can operate autonomously be bringing
a blind man to the shopping center.
By Martin LaMonica, Autoblog.com - Google yesterday released a poignant video demonstrating the potential of its self-driving car.
In the short video, a man walks out of his house and gets behind the wheel of one of Google's robotic cars, a Toyota Prius equipped with an array of high-tech gadgetry including radar, lasers, and cameras.
The car takes the man, Steve Mahan, for a ride including visits to a Taco Bell and the dry cleaners without him needing to touch the steering wheel or pedals. Midway through, Mahan says he is legally blind, having lost about 95 percent of his vision.
The three-minute clip demonstrates how the car can maneuver from his home, through neighborhoods, and into a commercial center autonomously. At the end of the video, Google says Mahan is the first customer of Google's self-driving car, calling him "self-driving car user #00000000001."
"Where this would change my life is to give me the independence and the flexibility to go the places I both want to go and need to go when I need to do those things," he says during the video.
In the short video, a man walks out of his house and gets behind the wheel of one of Google's robotic cars, a Toyota Prius equipped with an array of high-tech gadgetry including radar, lasers, and cameras.
The car takes the man, Steve Mahan, for a ride including visits to a Taco Bell and the dry cleaners without him needing to touch the steering wheel or pedals. Midway through, Mahan says he is legally blind, having lost about 95 percent of his vision.
The three-minute clip demonstrates how the car can maneuver from his home, through neighborhoods, and into a commercial center autonomously. At the end of the video, Google says Mahan is the first customer of Google's self-driving car, calling him "self-driving car user #00000000001."
"Where this would change my life is to give me the independence and the flexibility to go the places I both want to go and need to go when I need to do those things," he says during the video.
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