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?
WebBuzz du 28/01/2015: Les conducteurs russes ont de bons reflexes-The russians drivers have the best reactions
Pour conduire une voitures en Russie, l'anticipation est le maitre mot. C'est ainsi que ce conducteur a eu le bon reflexe qui lui a permi d'éviter de se trouver sur la trajectoire du bus...
To drive a car in Russia, anticipation is the key word. Thus the driver had the good reflex that has allowed him to avoid being in the path of the bus ...
WebBuzz du 13/04/2015: Nature vs buggy
Avec le retour du printemps, tous les passionnés de jardinage sortent de leur longue léthargie pour s'occuper des grands travaux de nettoyage. Certains emploient des manières peut orthodoxe qui ne sont pas adaptées et la nature est la pour leur rappeler...
With the return of spring, all gardening enthusiasts out of their long sleep to care for large cleaning jobs. Some use orthodox ways can not adapted and nature is to remind them ...
WebBuzz du 01/09/2014: Un accident évité de justesse-An accident nearly avoid
Cet automobiliste russe a réellement eu de la chance. Il est parvenu a éviter un camion qui se couchait et venait en face de lui en montant sur le bas coté de la route...
This Russian motorist really lucky. He managed to avoid a truck that was going down and down in front of him riding on the low side of the road ...
WebBuzz du 16/11/2012
C'est le soir et les jeunes font une petite course entre 2 feux rouges. Alors que les concurrants se préparent pour la revanche, un camion vient s'intercaler entre eux. Le feux passe au vert et le résultat est assez inattendu, mais met tout le monde d'accord ...
It is evening and young people are a small race between two red lights. While concurrants prepare for revenge, a truck is interposed between them. The light turns green and the result is quite unexpected, but makes everyone agrees ...
WebBuzz du 16/05/2012
Il fallait que cela arrive, Regis et son cousin, Boris, se sont rencontré dans une station service. Pour être sur qu'îl avait bien fait le plein du reservoir, Regis a allumé son briquet parce qu'il ne voyait rien ...
Evident, cela pris feux immédiatement ... Boris pris de panique se précipite sur l'extincteur... et met la pression a fond ... Heureusement, le feu finit par s'éteindre ...
It had to happen, Regis and his cousin, Boris, have met at a gas station. To be sure he had done the full tank, Regis has lit his lighter because he saw nothing ...
Obvious, it immediately caught fire ... Boris panicked rushes to the fire extinguisher ... and puts the pressure back ... Fortunately, the fire eventually extinguished ...
WebBuzz du 27/01/2015: Un accident évité de justesse-An accident nearly avoid
WebBuzz du 26/04/2012
In the town of Poznan in Poland, every year is organized a big event around the drifting. The drifting is the art of driving while skidding and took particular growth since the release of the series' fast and furious ". During this race, competitors fully control their vehicles but are also capable of playing bowling using photographers who, under the pretext of wanting to make the right picture, crossed safety barriers ...
WebBuzz du 08/10/2014: Un train explose un camion aux USA-A train explose a truck
Un convoi exceptionnelle transportant une grue a été heurté par un train de marchandise. Le conducteur de la locomotive de tête a eu le temps de sauter juste avant l'impact et n'est pas blessé.
An exceptional convoy carrying a crane was hit by a freight train. The driver of the lead locomotive had time to jump just before impact and was not injured.
WebBuzz du 22/02/2013
En Russie, surtout en hiver, les routes peuvent reserver quelques surprises. Il faut rester vigilent même arreter à un feux rouge. C'est le cas de ce conducteur, qui, après avoir nettoyé son pare-brise découvre qu'un bus dérape et arrive sur lui. Il semble que le chauffeur du bus n'a pas du tout anticipé le ralentissement du traffic et ai freiné brutalement. Fort heureusement, il parvient à éviter la file de véhicules devant lui.
In Russia, especially in winter, roads can reserve some surprises. Driver must remain vigilant even stop at a red light. This is the case of this driver who, after cleaning the windshield, discovers a bus skidded that reaches to him. It seems that the bus driver did not anticipate the slowdown in traffic and I braked suddenly. Fortunately, he managed to avoid the line vehicles in front of him.










