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A fact from Waymo appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 October 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that one of the Google driverless cars was able to drive itself down the narrow hairpin turns of San Francisco's Lombard Street? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/October.

How could the state of Nevada pass a law that applies to both Nevada and California? 90.210.82.161 (talk) 21:10, 17 December 2012 (UTC)Concerned[reply]

The Nevada law did not authorize driverless car operation in Nevada; rather, it specifically forbade it.

What the law did is to charge the DOT to come up with regulations regarding the operation of driverless cars in Nevada, and to authorize cars that comply with such to be driven on Nevada highways.

Until such time as the regulations are made and approved, no driverless car can comply with them. You can't comply with something that doesn't exist. This may, in fact, have the opposite effect of raising the issues of whether a self-parallel-parking car can legally be operated, since it is not regulated or approved. Jsharpminor (talk) 17:21, 19 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

How fast does Googles driverless car go? 10 km/h? 20 km/h? Fabbe (talk) 09:21, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

As fast as normal cars, I think. --Stryn (talk) 17:18, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

From article: The system drives at the speed limit it has stored on its maps and maintains its distance from other vehicles using its system of sensors. --Stryn (talk) 17:19, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Unless the car is operating itself 100% it isn't a driverless car - even if a person was to give it a destination only, they have operated the car and therefore are the driver. --ZhuLien 2:00, 22 February 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 27.32.141.11 (talk)

Perhaps they were "driving" the car for the millisecond when they chose the destination. The industry-accepted definition is that choosing the final destination doesn't count as driving.Owen214 (talk) 10:22, 6 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

zhulien, you are an imbecile — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.104.180.51 (talk) 03:01, 28 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

How can Google have a dozen autonomous cars on the roads at any given time, if (like the article states two paragraphs earlier) they've "outfitted ten" cars in total ? I guess the two numbers are just from different points in time, but it's confusing. --Eivind Kjørstad (talk) 20:27, 25 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]