The wait is finally over for all car fanatics. Google has announced that the self-driving car has been made ready and will soon be tested on the road. The car team of Google said, "We're going to be spending the holidays zipping around our test track, and we hope to see you on the streets of Northern California in the New Year." This prototype is based on the plans of California-based Google and was revealed in May last year. According to the plans of the company, the autonomous car would be launched sans normal features like steering wheels.
Chris Urmson of Google said, "They won't have a steering wheel, accelerator pedal, or brake pedal, because they don't need them. Our software and sensors do all the work.” However, the technical specifications were not disclosed.
Google said, "We've been working on different prototypes-of-prototypes, each designed to test different systems of a self-driving car—for example, the typical car parts like steering and braking, as well as the self-driving parts like the computer and sensors. We've now put all those systems together in this fully functional vehicle—our first complete prototype for fully autonomous driving. Self-driving cars, if widely adopted, stand to be as transformative to consumer life as the smartphone."
