Though human drivers are still required for turning, merging, and departing, according to Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles rules.
One accident in September 2017 was caused by a Waymo vehicle,
though the human driver had taken over the car and swerved into the next lane to avoid an object in the road, reports SFGate.
Not exact matches
Even
though Otto's truck was driving itself on a public highway alongside other
human drivers, the computers were crashing every few hours, these people said.
Not long ago, technology and automobile companies were talking as
though the time was just around the corner when
human drivers would be sharing the road with cars and trucks barreling along the highways under machine...
Their daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) is in college now, and Bryan still thinks of her as a baby (even
though her professional stunt -
driver skills in «Taken 2» should have clued him in that she is a highly capable
human, not to mention her ability to run across the tilting rooftops of Istanbul, lobbing grenades at innocent parking lots in order to signal her location).
The
driver's seat,
though handsomely contoured and upholstered, needs more fine - tuning to
human specifications.
But other research has shown that
human actions have put us in the planetary
driver's seat even
though we have not yet passed
driver's ed.
A study of coverage of the recent United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report finds that many mainstream media outlets amplified the marginal viewpoints of those who doubt the role of
human activity in warming the planet, even
though the report itself reflects that the climate science community is more certain than ever that
humans are the major
driver of climate change.
The IPCC has chosen 1950 as the starting point for their confabulations, because they have the preconceived notion that
human GHG emissions (mainly CO2) are the main
drivers of the global temperature (the CAGW enthusiasts prefer the post - satellite era because it renders a trend of about 0.16 °C / decade, even
though they invariably select one of the terrestrial records, usually GISTEMP).
Drivers are
humans and even
though they may consume caffeine, eat sugar, listen to the radio, or do other things to try and combat ordinary
driver fatigue, they are sometimes driving when they are fatigued.
Auto - industry insiders and observers alike argued that the company was putting the public at risk by introducing a self - driving system that tempted
drivers to relax behind the wheel even
though it was not yet advanced enough to function safely without
human oversight.
Uber Freight, which is the app that Uber will be using for its services, is in a way intended to help the company merge the likes of manual trucking with autonomous trucking,
though both will still need
drivers whereas something like Waymo «s self - driving vans would not as the company is set to begin rolling out fully autonomous vehicles with no
human driver at some point this year, also in Arizona and specifically Phoenix.
The car was in autonomous mode at the time of the accident, and
though there was a
human operator in the
driver's seat, they were not in control of the vehicle when the accident occurred.