After conquering the web Google engineers have set their sights on making our streets a safer place and making driving hassle free.Their solution is to free humans from mundane driving duty by developing driverless cars. Google has already developed technology which enables cars to navigate on their own and has so far clocked up over 2,30,000 km in California with seven such driverless cars.
The driverless
car uses video cameras, radar sensors and laser range finders to avoid other vehicles and continue on a pre-defined route via
satellite navigation. There is a driver on standby mode to takeover in case of any system failure or emergency. With this innovation Google aims to reduce the number of lives which are lost to road accidents by half and also encourage fatigue free commuting and car-sharing.The technology however is still many years away from production stage so we would still need to drive our own cars for some time to come.
Every now and again, we come across news that a vehicle has eclipsed the one million mile mark. The vehicles are typically very old, and they're often pickup trucks. That's only partly true for Phil Marsella, who uses his relatively new four year-old Ford F-250 to deliver greyhound dogs to racetracks and families across America. Marsella reportedly drives his gas F-250, "Betsy," between 7,000 and 10,000 miles per week, or more miles than many drivers log in an entire year. And it appears as though Ford never expected the F-250 would surpass one million road miles, as the digital odometer stopped working once the milestone was reached. Marsella says that he's tracking the miles, though, with another 12,000 miles or so since one million.
