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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Google Gets Approval To Put More Self-Driving Cars On Public Roads [Watch (HLS stream): Google Gets Approval To Put More Self-Driving Cars On Public Roads](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/O7wM2LAv.m3u8) (1:53)  _Published 2015-05-15. Google’s latest in-house autonomous vehicles are now cleared for testing on public roads._ --- Jul 27, 2023 6:15 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [A Google Self-Driving Car Got Pulled Over For Going Too Slow](/video/iY8DSpiA/) ### A Google Self-Driving Car Got Pulled Over For Going Too Slow [Know Right Now: Google Sees First Injury Accident for Self-Driving Cars](/video/k5GQ3Dni/) ### Know Right Now: Google Sees First Injury Accident for Self-Driving Cars [Google's Project Fi](/video/K36YkCgT/) ### Google's Project Fi --- ## Transcript Google just got approval to send its latest self driving cars out onto public roads. Its diminutive two seaters will join the modified Lexus SUVs Google already has tooling around Palo Alto. Where they will draw on what those vehicles have already learned during their nearly 1 million miles of autonomous driving. Google says that mileage is equivalent to about 75 years of your average US driver's road experience. Each car will carry a back up human safety driver, as they always have, and be limited to a top speed of 25 miles per hour. Google is a leader in the young market. For autonomous vehicles which have yet to see widespread deployment because they're either still in development or still unregulated. In the US, for example, only four states have passed laws permitting some operation of driverless cars, and Google's efforts are closely scrutinized. The company acknowledges reports it's been involved in accidents, 11 minor crashes over six years and one 0. 7 million miles of combined driving across all its vehicles. It's hard to say how those number compare to plain old human drivers. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration suggests the majority of minor vehicle damage crashes are never reported. In any case, Google says its self- driving algorithms were never the direct cause of any of these crashes. Google alleges, the one time its vehicle was to blame. It was because a human operator was at the controls. The obvious solution then is to remove the humans but that's harder than it sounds. The Verge points out there are some safety scenarios and some uniquely human driving situations. That autonomous vehicles just can't compute. Sometimes simply moving particularly in the world's most congested cities requires a degree of cowboyish- ness that a stupidity- proof autonomous car can never permit. Maybe this is what Google means when it says it's focused on uncovering challenges that are unique to a fully self- driving vehicle. 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