A car built by Google that drives itself around city
streets had a brush with the law for driving too slowly.
A police officer in the tech giant's Silicon Valley
hometown pulled over the prototype car Thursday because it was going a
traffic-tying 24 mph in a 35 mph zone.
The officer spoke with the person in the driver's seat
but issued no citation, according to the Mountain View Police Department.
Though the car was driving itself, state law requires a person to be able to
intervene when the technology is tested on public roads.
The officer wanted to "learn more about how the car
was choosing speeds along certain roadways and to educate the operators about
impeding traffic," according to a department blog post.
The bubble-shaped prototype has two seats. Its top speed
is 25 mph.
"Driving too slowly? Bet humans don't get pulled
over for that too often," Google's self-driving car project wrote in a
blog post. It said the cars — outfitted with high-tech sensors and computing
power — have never received a ticket.
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