Google announced Monday it has built its first fully-functioning driverless car.<\/p>\n
The tech giant has been working on self-driving vehicles for several years by implanting software into existing cars but it celebrated Monday with the release of pictures and the announcement of its first autonomous vehicle built from scratch.<\/p>\n
The finished two-door prototype looks somewhat like a golf cart built with a whimsical flair.<\/p>\n
Google released in May a mockup of the car that wasn\u2019t road-ready \u2013 it lacked headlights, for example. The vehicle caused a stir because it didn\u2019t include features normally used by human drivers such as a steering wheel, brake pedals and rearview mirrors.<\/p>\n
Since that time Google\u2019s team has been testing various programming in different models. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been working on different prototypes-of-prototypes, each designed to test different systems of a self-driving car,\u201d wrote the Google Self-Driving Car Project team in a Google+ post published Monday.<\/p>\n
The vehicle is the first one that marries the automobile functionality and software engineering into one working car.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve now put all those systems together in this fully functional vehicle \u2013 our first complete prototype for fully autonomous driving,\u201d the team continued.<\/p>\n
The company will be testing the car on northern California streets in 2015. Google has already logged hundreds of thousands of miles driving autonomous vehicles around its hometown of Mountain View, California, but not with homemade cars.<\/p>\n
Now its new quirky car will be joining the fleet. Even though Google has tossed normal features such as the steering wheel, testers will be able to take over the controls.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur safety drivers will continue to oversee the vehicle for a while longer, using temporary manual controls as needed while we continue to test and learn,\u201d the team wrote.<\/p>\n
While Google\u2019s car is strikingly different than anything on the market, Monday\u2019s announcement marks an exciting new page in the automobile\u2019s history.<\/p>\n
World Bulletin\/News Desk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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