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- This video is audio described for the visually-impaired. The original version can be found here: • Self-Driving Car Test:...
We announced our self-driving car project in 2010 to make driving safer, more enjoyable, and more efficient. Having safely completed over 200,000 miles of computer-led driving, we wanted to share one of our favorite moments. Here's Steve, who joined us for a special drive on a carefully programmed route to experience being behind the wheel in a whole new way. We organized this test as a technical experiment, but we think it's also a promising look at what autonomous technology may one day deliver if rigorous technology and safety standards can be met.
Music: The Album Leaf - "We Need Help"
I'm getting older (Hey, yea, I know some of you think 71 is old, but ask any one my age and older and they will tell you I'm still YOUNG); any way, This kind of car would really be an enormous help for elderly people, especially those of us who have children who think we are to old to drive, for one reason or the other, and some of us really aren't safe drivers ! I look forward to them becoming as common on the road as paved roads are in a city. No wonder I KNOW Google is the best !!
That has come a long way!
I like how the visually impaired were taught better grammar and spelling than most people that can see perfectly. Especially on TH-cam and Facebook.
I want one, i am a cancer survivor and can't see so well anymore, this is so cool Thanks
as a legally blind person i find this really exciting, hell just as any sort of person I find this really exciting
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I read about this in WIRED magazine, and thought it sounded good. As a child of the 80's, I realize that this sort of thing was science fiction thirty years ago, and yet here it is, a reality. Keep up the great work on the self-driving car Google :D
Ha - I just watched the whole thing not realizing it was Audio described. At times I thought it was a bit odd but it made everything really clear. It only dawned on me when it said "He waves his cane as he walks inside."
I? So? Want one! I'm totally blind and have dreamed of a self-driving car since I didn't pass the Guide Dogs' For The Blind interview in 2006! I see myself cranking up some jazz and taking people like family on rides to wherever they need to go. I see myself helping out more than I do now and I see myself driving to CVS to get my own medication! Please continue this cool idea! I call dibs on the first one and I'll name him Dominic after a google employee! LOL!
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Absolutely marvelous invention. Safer driving roads is more likely to occur, and less problems for the older drivers in their later years.
Being blind, I've wanted this kind of stuff since I was a kid. I can't wait to test it out for myself!
Is it just me or did anybody else wonder why the car parked at an angle when it came back to the guy's house? Other than that...simply awesome. :) Can't wait for self driving cars to be standard on the roads. :D
I prefer this version, with the narration. Thanks!
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Thats such a great step for people like Steve. Hope google's vision can become a reality.
This is a beautiful Creation and advancement in technology. This gives us blind people the chance and opportunity to Go wherever we want whenever we want without depending on others or public transportation. I am a full-time college student pursuing a degree in psychology and education and I would love to have one of these vehicles sooner than later. I can just imagine driving to school, lol And the look on peoples faces when they see a blind person driving. :)
my mom is not blind , but she already wants one.
this reminds me of irobot. This will probably become standard one day.
well its nice to see the future options that disabled ppl have to look forward to.... and the narration for the blind was a great idea :)
I think that's why the narrator is describing things that most of us can see.
Never. I will stop you!!!
When I was a kid I thought "it will come true one day". This is that day. God bless you. Imagine racing cars! LOL.
You know the main reason they're making this is to complete Street View without needing a human driver. :P
This is just an amazing technology. Just awe inspiring. No doubt, this car can be a better driver than a human, but the first unavoidable accident will cause trust for this technology to plummet.
It would be up to the creators of the cars programming to decide situations like that, and it would probably be whatever causes the least amount of damage. It may not run into a car if the car is running or if a human is near by. The way one car could tell if another is running is through radio signals.
I viewed this video on other site, just came here to "like"
It's funny; I watched this video without the audio description and totally missed out on the fact that they parked in a handicapped parking space until the narrator said it.
Now, if the car paid for the food, that would be something. This is great stuff. I would love to own this car. Oh how much I could get done while my car drove for me. Great work google!
I'm not sure about cost, but Google's had these driving around LA for a few years, and they've never been in an accident. They're better drivers than people. One did wreck one time, but it was when a Google employee was driving, somewhat ironically.
This is amazing, literally awesome....if that's even an appropriate word to use....
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Uhh, no lol. The primary reason is fairly commonplace crashes that choke up a shoulder or more lanes of the highway. Another primary reason is that we're still using a traffic prediction system for our stoplights that's been unchanged since the '50s. Automated cars would sure help out with both reaction time and commonality of crashes, but reaction time is pretty minor in the scheme of things.
I was wondering why the videos was so specific, then I read the description.
Your car alread have a lot of computers, and you probably already have a car with fly by wire. Most jetliners nowadays also are controlled by flybywire, so, even if a pilot is actually flying the plane, he is not acting directly upon hydraulic atuators, but his commands go through a processing engine. Lots of refineries, chemical factories, nuclear power plants are controlled by computers most of the time, and this has DECREASED the number of accidents.
Wow, wow, wow. This is AMAZING. I wish I could use a car like this some day. I don't dream about going to space or walking the moon: I have a dream about not having to drive (I'm a terrible driver and most of the time I scared to dead about run over someone or having a crash) but still being able to use a car. Since late 90's when I saw a special program on TV about cars being guided by magnets buried on the asphalt I wish this could become mainstream, real, posible, not just a dream.
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There's something like that already on the market. It's called "Pay Pass" from MasterCard. Imagine having a chip like that imbedded under the front fender or something. The car drives up to the drive-thru. As you place your order a radio receiver in the order verifier takes in your card information. Money is deducted from your account after the clerk verifies that the system is deducting your own money. (You wouldn't want to pay for someone else's lunch unknowingly)
I guess I mean feasible in that everyone would want one or could afford one. Wonder how expensive they are to make? How reliable would they be (i.e. what if it malfunctions?) I think it's a great idea. I don't know how many times I have wished I could just flip a switch and put my car into autopilot! Especially on those long drives. :-)
This is very cool .I would love to have a car like that because I quit driving when hit by two teenagers in a sports car and I was in a ford mid size van. She hit me so hard that I spun around and hit head on to a telephone pole. It handicapped me to the point a few years later I was in a wheelchair..THAT IS WHY I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE ONE OF THOSE CARS SO I COULD BE MORE INDEPENDENT SINCE I AM NOT IN THE WHEELCHAIR NOW...
I can just imagine the faces the people are making as the blind man gets into the drivers seat.
in tens of thousands of kilometers, it crashed once: the engineer was driving it.
Oh Man, Google really destroys peoples' ambitions. When I took this class called Machine Learning, I wanted to achieve this one day but apparently Google has done it first. I will definitely participate in it. I'm applying for a job at Google soon and I will do my best to work on this project. GOOGLE ! DO NOT DENY MY APPLICATION, or I'll be mad.
Google, I would like to say that you are helping the whole world with your technology. This is, well, impossible until now!
Cool shit indeed!
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This would be a great car for teenagers; they could get around independently, but would be driven more safely than they would drive themselves.
Its not an April Fools joke everyone. Google has invested millions of dollars into this and has been working on it for a few years now.
Have to say that kakky pants mean something entirely different over here in the UK, but he may well be wearing them after a ride in a self driving car!
0:35, hands in air to show that he indeed does not care.
Show de bola. É bom ver a tecnologia sendo trabalhada em favor do bem da humanidade.
with no money of course
just human solidarity :)
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Can't wait to read the first news about self-crashed cars lol
I think this is awesome. Just think this vehicle could put the ambulance chasers out of business. No more accidents. I admit I like to drive fast but as I get older my reaction time is a lot less than it was 30 years ago. I really like this car it could get me and my family to destinations safe.
More like he's riding in the car than really driving the car.
Still pretty neat
oh, only in the end I realized that the narrator explained everything happening because the video is made for blind people too
Just excellent ! It would be very great in sommes years ! :D
WOw, that is incredible.
sweet jesus can't wait to see cars turned into self-driving living rooms. SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY
they would probably make new laws requiring you to have both hands on the wheel anyway, so they can still make money if you buy one of these. When they start being sold, that is.
The only thing that concerns me about this, is what would that car do in a situation out of which there is no solution. Say a drunk driver swerves toward you, swerving away would cause you to hit another say parked car, but at least you would suffer less damage, would a human perform better in such cases than a computer?
No, it is operated completely by the computer. It can drive all by itself
Just wondering why the music is there. Wouldn't the listeners of this video benefit from hearing the recorded audio so they know what's going on? Maybe a good suggestion for next video?
The hope is that, with more and more self-driving cars, there would be less and less drunk drivers, meaning that the risk of injury continually decreases as these cars become more popular.
That self driving car is impressive but WHERES MY HOVER BOARD?! :)
You don't really drive the car but the car drives you.
Technology has gone beyond the world
Two years ago I was up in Tahoe Lake, CA and I saw this car zooming about town. It did not have the identifying markings and we wondered what the driver was up to. Now I know. Very cool! This car would give so many people, not only the blind, amazing independence. Thank you, Google.
Cool, but did you notice there's no other traffic on the road with him? I suspect they cleared the roads for this "test". I'll be more impressed when they do it on LA's highways at 5:00 PM.
Well Done!
the primary reason for traffic slowing down in highways is because of the delay caused by human reaction times. It takes a couple of seconds for you to percieve, comprehend and react when the car in front of you moves. Automated cars would eliminate this problem.
the cars will have emotions. Then ultimately, take over the world.
Thus, Pixar's Cars.
Not necessarily it would depend on the range of the sensors and the frequency of the readings. The reaction speed of the sensors would surpass that of humans. Again the range of the sensors would determine the safest speed the car could reach before becoming a hazard.
Absolutely brilliant.
Wow!! When is the next self-driving car coming out?? lol
Really cool!
Here's a legitimate question. If the car speeds and gets pulled over who will get the ticket?
My favorite part is when he quoted Wale.
Wale? Who's Wale?
I work with blind people every day. This is wonderful technology.
That is wonderful technology for future
Quite the expert now are you? Remember to say hello to me if you pass by with your self-driving car...
It's not. The guys behind it (Sebastian Thrun etc) won the DARPA challenge a while back.
If a man who is blind can operate as the driver, why couldn't a drunk man?
Besides, everything a human can do, a computer can do better. It's just a matter of time before every single human is edged out of every single tedious or dangerous thing. The day the last human is laid off will be a happy one.
How does a human avoid those circumstances? The car most likely does the same, but better. Your reaction time, if you're really fast, is around 100 milliseconds. This technology will almost certainly respond faster than that.
I am epileptic and I would love to see this on Australian roads, To be independent again and to be able to go anywhere i needed or wanted to.. even to be able to advertise and get sponsors for the car.. it would be amazing.. truly amazing to make Do you sell them? how much? what would it take for you to start bringing them out to Australia?
Yes, and one more problem rises. Who would you blame? The blind "driver"?
I do not believe it will be allowed because the computer can not replace people.
this is truly amazing. the potential is great for these people
If you mean speeding tickets, then yes - unless of course you go into manual mode and break the speed limit yourself.
This is wonderful technology. What is next?
My bad. didn't mean to spam. How about not giving me an error when you successfully post eh youtube?
You mean they'll release an outdated version of google's car in white/light grey with no customization options and sell it at a 60% mark up while calling it cutting edge?
Oh, I was under the impression that always did an incredible job with keeping hackers out. Apparently I was misinformed...
thanks google i can get back home after getting drunk :)
I'm thinking, if ALL cars drove themselves, we might have less accidents (maybe?). Not feasible but an interesting thought.
"Steve Eats a taco as the car rolls into the driveway"
I know that, but a lot of the other April Fools jokes were uploaded March 30th and near there, so I wasn't sure.
The problem with that is they believe that if they sacrifice themselves, they go to "heaven"
Awesome!!
So the car drives for you, yet It makes YOU roll the window down?
That's why there's the extra voice descriptions in this video. It explains to the visually impaired what's going on in the video.
Another imaging dream will come true soon.. "Just imagination a place you'll be there".
Дорожно-транспортыне происшествия происходили даже до того как первый автомобиль появился на улицах. Попасть под извозчика было делом обычным и, конечно, с увеличением количества транспонтных средств в том числе автомобилей количество ДТП тоже поползло вверх. Люди никогда не годились для управления такими опасными объектами, это задача автоматики. Хорошая автоматика имеет намного меньше шансов выйти из стоя чем человек. Она не запьет, не устнет, у нее не будет инсульта или сердечного приступа.
Amazing
Really, industrial robots are faster than humans, make lots of complicated movements. If the sensors are accurate, fast and have resolution enough, there's no way a human could drive a car better than a computer.
wow but how does the car avoid unforeseen circumstances? like a car that swerves into it from a neighboring lane.