Rumor: Google To Submit Product to NTSB by November of This Year

4 September 2012 Posted By matthewn

I’m really not sure to make of this one. Bright Side Of News.com has come out of nowhere two weeks ago to post an ‘exclusive’ showing the “Driverless Car System” which – according to their sources – Google will submit to the NTSB for certification by November 2012. The article flew completely under the radar and was not picked up by any other sources (besides this Czech website) until Paul Godsmark sent the story in to us.

Here’s a picture of the prototype of the system, called KARR, from the article:

Credit http://www.brightsideofnews.com – “The final product is quite different.”

 

 We also learned that the Driverless car system will utilize the CAN and MOST150 Ethernet protocols to communicate with a sensor array and the rest of the Class A, Class B and Class C subsystems.

Google will submit the boxes for NTSB and FIA/TUV certification in October or November timeframe, after which we can expect roughly 3-5 year design period before the first driverless cars reach the market. The companies closest to deploy the Driverless Car System (DCS) are Volkswagen Audi Group and Toyota. As a side note, the DCS is planned to be assembled in the United States. Current systems however, are manufactured in Far East.

 

Read the full article here.

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Also, my mini startup has just sent a new site live into soft launch: Medisato.com - it’s a health symptoms database.

My other mini startup, Motorscore.com, is kicking ass at the moment.

 

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    3 Responses to “Rumor: Google To Submit Product to NTSB by November of This Year”

  1. justacooldude says:
    September 4, 2012 at 1:15 pm

    I saw a similar article a short while back, could be true, who knows? Would be nice if true though.

  2. ThomLandon says:
    September 5, 2012 at 7:46 pm

    Without cites, it’s hard to know, but obviously a three to five year window until mainstream delivery’s not bad.  I found this article from August 25 on NextBigFuture summarizing.
     
    http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/08/transformed-cities-and-self-driving.html

    • MatthewNewton says:
      September 6, 2012 at 12:13 am

       @ThomLandon 3-5 years is fairly amazing I think! Thanks for the Next Big Future link – given that I read that blog, I’m surprised I missed that one