The authorities of the state of Nevada, USA, approved in the last 16 days a law that allows driverless cars can circulate on public roads. Although part of the tests to make smart cars - literally - to conquer the streets, vehicles may just walk in areas predetermined by transit authorities. According to Ryan Calo, director of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford University, this is the first legislation to recognize and allow the use of technology.
In tests at the hands of Google since 2010, the driverless cars using Google Street View, artificial intelligence systems, radar and lidar sensors (optical technology that allows use of light waves to determine information about the environment) to guide them through the streets . They have walked - with a driver-passenger readiness for eventualities - 1600 km roads of California "without any human intervention" and other 230,000 kilometers "with minimum interference."
