Most have probably already heard about this, but it is just to funny. I initially heard about this on the radio and it made me laugh. Yes, I still listen to radio at times.
A police officer stopped a Google self driving car Thursday November 12th in Mountain View, California. I can only imagine the look on the officer's face when there was no driver. The car did apparently have a passenger.
The car wasn't speeding. It wasn't weaving. It wasn't driving erratically. It was just driving too slowly. Slowly enough to back traffic up behind it. It traveling at 24 miles per hour in a 35 mph zone, according to the Mountain View Police Department. 22400(a) of the California Vehicle Code doesn't allow drivers to impede traffic in this manner, but there was no ticket issued as there was no driver. I guess a ticket could have been issued to Google but that seems silly. I wonder how Google would react to such a citation?
Google says that these vehicles are capped at a speed of 25 mph. It seems that this may have been the first incident involving one of these prototypes cars and a traffic stop. Will it be the last? At least it was on the amusing side rather than the unsafe side of things.
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