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Tuesday, 07 February 2012 12:35

Navigating the Legality of Autonomous Vehicles

I wasn’t long in the backseat of Google’s self-driving Toyota Prius, cruising smoothly down California Highway 85, before a sober, gray-flannel question pierced my giddy techno-utopian buzz: Is this legal?

On principle, it would seem downright churlish to penalize Google’s upstanding Prius — which kept letter-perfect lane position, following distance and speed-limit compliance — while all around us human drivers committed a panoply of illegal acts: talking on their phones, speeding, changing lanes without signaling, tailgating, you name it.

But what does the law say about autonomous vehicles?

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A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Feb. 2

Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. Each morning at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time you’ll see a new puzzle, and the previous day’s answer (in invisitext) posted here.

TODAY’S PUZZLE:

What job did Poor Richard’s first-born son take that effectively ended their relationship?

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER :

Search [Europe’s largest parliament building] to find the Hungarian Parliament Building. Search [Hungarian coat of arms] to learn that the item is the Hungarian Crown, which is housed in the Parliament Building.

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Navigating the Legality of Autonomous Vehicles

A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Feb. 2

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