Google’s self-driving cars to hit California roads

If you find yourself in Mountain View, California this summer, you might be greeted by Google’s self-driving vehicles. The tech company is gearing up to test their prototype vehicles. These prototypes are using the same software on Google’s existing fleet of self-driving Lexus RX450h SUVs. The new prototypes have their speed capped at 25mph. These cars will also have safety driver aboard with a removable steering wheel, accelerator pedal, and brake pedal.

Source: Google Official Blog

Google’s new self-driving cars to hit roads next month

What Google says are the “first real build” of its self-driving car will be hitting the streets in January. This new model gets rid of the clunky rooftop LIDAR system for a sleeker machine that looks like a cross between a Mac Pro and a police siren. It finally now gets real headlights, too. This self-driving car also finally gets headlights, too. But it retains that cute koala-like look to it.

Source: io9