Self-Driving Car Test: Steve Mahan (Audio Described)

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This video is audio described for the visually-impaired. The original version can be found here: • Self-Driving Car Test:...
We announced our self-driving car project in 2010 to make driving safer, more enjoyable, and more efficient. Having safely completed over 200,000 miles of computer-led driving, we wanted to share one of our favorite moments. Here's Steve, who joined us for a special drive on a carefully programmed route to experience being behind the wheel in a whole new way. We organized this test as a technical experiment, but we think it's also a promising look at what autonomous technology may one day deliver if rigorous technology and safety standards can be met.
Music: The Album Leaf - "We Need Help"

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@DeadEyeDeadOn 12 лет назад

I like how the visually impaired were taught better grammar and spelling than most people that can see perfectly. Especially on RU-vid and Facebook.

@Hesham_Haggag 12 лет назад

I want one, i am a cancer survivor and can't see so well anymore, this is so cool Thanks

@kfrncs 12 лет назад

Ha - I just watched the whole thing not realizing it was Audio described. At times I thought it was a bit odd but it made everything really clear. It only dawned on me when it said "He waves his cane as he walks inside."

@dixiemason7021 11 лет назад

I'm getting older (Hey, yea, I know some of you think 71 is old, but ask any one my age and older and they will tell you I'm still YOUNG); any way, This kind of car would really be an enormous help for elderly people, especially those of us who have children who think we are to old to drive, for one reason or the other, and some of us really aren't safe drivers ! I look forward to them becoming as common on the road as paved roads are in a city. No wonder I KNOW Google is the best !!

@ivlfounder 12 лет назад

I never want to be anywhere near a car that's drive can be hacked. That be said this is a wonderful video.

@The1Chinchilla 12 лет назад

I? So? Want one! I'm totally blind and have dreamed of a self-driving car since I didn't pass the Guide Dogs' For The Blind interview in 2006! I see myself cranking up some jazz and taking people like family on rides to wherever they need to go. I see myself helping out more than I do now and I see myself driving to CVS to get my own medication! Please continue this cool idea! I call dibs on the first one and I'll name him Dominic after a google employee! LOL! Chela Robles jazz trumpeter

@LAVirgo67 12 лет назад

Two years ago I was up in Tahoe Lake, CA and I saw this car zooming about town. It did not have the identifying markings and we wondered what the driver was up to. Now I know. Very cool! This car would give so many people, not only the blind, amazing independence. Thank you, Google.

@me1td0wn366 12 лет назад

That has come a long way!

@MasterThreepwood 12 лет назад

I read about this in WIRED magazine, and thought it sounded good. As a child of the 80's, I realize that this sort of thing was science fiction thirty years ago, and yet here it is, a reality. Keep up the great work on the self-driving car Google :D

@ceedee6161 7 лет назад

as a legally blind person i find this really exciting, hell just as any sort of person I find this really exciting

@ryanwerder2915 6 лет назад

How are you typing this

@matthewvealey8573 6 лет назад

Eishadiaz09

@matthewvealey8573 6 лет назад

Ryan Werder

@yolasantibanez1018 5 лет назад

@@matthewvealey8573 8ū

@CybershamanX 9 лет назад

Is it just me or did anybody else wonder why the car parked at an angle when it came back to the guy's house? Other than that...simply awesome. :) Can't wait for self driving cars to be standard on the roads. :D

@BSinnett 12 лет назад

Being blind, I've wanted this kind of stuff since I was a kid. I can't wait to test it out for myself!

@carterpape 12 лет назад

It's funny; I watched this video without the audio description and totally missed out on the fact that they parked in a handicapped parking space until the narrator said it.

@m_f_luder 12 лет назад

I think that's why the narrator is describing things that most of us can see.

@dafroh73 12 лет назад

Just awesome!

@redxsage 7 лет назад

I prefer this version, with the narration. Thanks!

@kevinchampion9557 6 лет назад

redxsage open

@madjunir 12 лет назад

my mom is not blind , but she already wants one. this reminds me of irobot. This will probably become standard one day.

@ivanardila 11 лет назад

When I was a kid I thought "it will come true one day". This is that day. God bless you. Imagine racing cars! LOL.

@Joeelii 12 лет назад

Thats such a great step for people like Steve. Hope google's vision can become a reality.

@allieissocoollikee 12 лет назад

Really cool!

@kdbrent 12 лет назад

I can just imagine the faces the people are making as the blind man gets into the drivers seat.

@petaujus3000 12 лет назад

in tens of thousands of kilometers, it crashed once: the engineer was driving it.

@tjwakaa 12 лет назад

I was wondering why the videos was so specific, then I read the description.

@aosth5 12 лет назад

This is so cool!

@roy6903bl 12 лет назад

Awesome!!

@explorerSG1 12 лет назад

Absolutely marvelous invention. Safer driving roads is more likely to occur, and less problems for the older drivers in their later years.

@viktrFBdobrev 12 лет назад

Well Done!

@TheAnuchild 12 лет назад

WOw, that is incredible.

@marissawade7743 11 лет назад

Amazing!

@Zack_V 12 лет назад

I viewed this video on other site, just came here to "like"

@jacob81062s 12 лет назад

Amazing

@unkn0wn8510 12 лет назад

well its nice to see the future options that disabled ppl have to look forward to.... and the narration for the blind was a great idea :)

@ajaykoemar3979 12 лет назад

Never. I will stop you!!!

@karl75m 12 лет назад

Its not an April Fools joke everyone. Google has invested millions of dollars into this and has been working on it for a few years now.

@MrAmeeme 12 лет назад

So much interesting

@luqthansa123 12 лет назад

Wow!! When is the next self-driving car coming out?? lol

@alfonsocuiti 12 лет назад

Can't wait to read the first news about self-crashed cars lol

@SeaWater4ever 12 лет назад

Just excellent ! It would be very great in sommes years ! :D

@Cr8tiveSWEET 11 лет назад

This is amazing, literally awesome....if that's even an appropriate word to use....

@dinateresaserafimteresa7615 4 года назад

Boa diá

@vergilkicksass 12 лет назад

It would be up to the creators of the cars programming to decide situations like that, and it would probably be whatever causes the least amount of damage. It may not run into a car if the car is running or if a human is near by. The way one car could tell if another is running is through radio signals.

@Jagerbomber 12 лет назад

You know the main reason they're making this is to complete Street View without needing a human driver. :P

@amanie1226 11 лет назад

This is a beautiful Creation and advancement in technology. This gives us blind people the chance and opportunity to Go wherever we want whenever we want without depending on others or public transportation. I am a full-time college student pursuing a degree in psychology and education and I would love to have one of these vehicles sooner than later. I can just imagine driving to school, lol And the look on peoples faces when they see a blind person driving. :)

@leotbrown 12 лет назад

sweet jesus can't wait to see cars turned into self-driving living rooms. SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY

@longpshorn 12 лет назад

Now, if the car paid for the food, that would be something. This is great stuff. I would love to own this car. Oh how much I could get done while my car drove for me. Great work google!

@Tuesday_is_gone 12 лет назад

Oh Man, Google really destroys peoples' ambitions. When I took this class called Machine Learning, I wanted to achieve this one day but apparently Google has done it first. I will definitely participate in it. I'm applying for a job at Google soon and I will do my best to work on this project. GOOGLE ! DO NOT DENY MY APPLICATION, or I'll be mad.

@raghavraj8927 5 лет назад

That is wonderful technology for future

@DjRadRod 12 лет назад

Cool shit indeed! -A San Jose Resident.

@lscstudiosvb 6 лет назад

This is amazing 😂

@BenTreynorSloss 12 лет назад

This would be a great car for teenagers; they could get around independently, but would be driven more safely than they would drive themselves.

@DannleChannel 12 лет назад

I'm not sure about cost, but Google's had these driving around LA for a few years, and they've never been in an accident. They're better drivers than people. One did wreck one time, but it was when a Google employee was driving, somewhat ironically.

@Sinnsat 12 лет назад

How does the software behave in non-standard situations? What's the rate of software malfunctions/oddities? Who to blame in case of a car accident?

@MsAussie83 Год назад

I wonder, if I ever have one of these cars, would I be able to take it to the airport? How would I be able to tell which car is mine? Would these cars have Braille on the side?

@jonenat 12 лет назад

There's something like that already on the market. It's called "Pay Pass" from MasterCard. Imagine having a chip like that imbedded under the front fender or something. The car drives up to the drive-thru. As you place your order a radio receiver in the order verifier takes in your card information. Money is deducted from your account after the clerk verifies that the system is deducting your own money. (You wouldn't want to pay for someone else's lunch unknowingly)

@BaldingEagle51 12 лет назад

Just wondering why the music is there. Wouldn't the listeners of this video benefit from hearing the recorded audio so they know what's going on? Maybe a good suggestion for next video?

@eliziariosantos 12 лет назад

Your car alread have a lot of computers, and you probably already have a car with fly by wire. Most jetliners nowadays also are controlled by flybywire, so, even if a pilot is actually flying the plane, he is not acting directly upon hydraulic atuators, but his commands go through a processing engine. Lots of refineries, chemical factories, nuclear power plants are controlled by computers most of the time, and this has DECREASED the number of accidents.

@CombsDeserts 12 лет назад

This is just an amazing technology. Just awe inspiring. No doubt, this car can be a better driver than a human, but the first unavoidable accident will cause trust for this technology to plummet.

@annettamiller1465 10 лет назад

This is very cool .I would love to have a car like that because I quit driving when hit by two teenagers in a sports car and I was in a ford mid size van. She hit me so hard that I spun around and hit head on to a telephone pole. It handicapped me to the point a few years later I was in a wheelchair..THAT IS WHY I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE ONE OF THOSE CARS SO I COULD BE MORE INDEPENDENT SINCE I AM NOT IN THE WHEELCHAIR NOW...

@DesignDomination 4 года назад

May I use a small part of this video and the one with audio description to demonstrate what an audio description is? It's for a course I'm creating.

@iKingRPG 4 года назад

Yes

@tarunghosh4 11 лет назад

This is wonderful technology. What is next?

@cjblasian07 12 лет назад

I laughed when this old dude said look ma no hands haha

@IronIsMyLife 12 лет назад

0:35, hands in air to show that he indeed does not care.

@shruggedatlas 12 лет назад

yes, with good old grumpy walter in the passenger seat LOL

@MrBawdry 12 лет назад

Have to say that kakky pants mean something entirely different over here in the UK, but he may well be wearing them after a ride in a self driving car!

@redtitan2005 12 лет назад

More like he's riding in the car than really driving the car. Still pretty neat

@ashir555 12 лет назад

Wow, wow, wow. This is AMAZING. I wish I could use a car like this some day. I don't dream about going to space or walking the moon: I have a dream about not having to drive (I'm a terrible driver and most of the time I scared to dead about run over someone or having a crash) but still being able to use a car. Since late 90's when I saw a special program on TV about cars being guided by magnets buried on the asphalt I wish this could become mainstream, real, posible, not just a dream.

@iKingRPG 4 года назад

Tesla model 3

@curryn2 12 лет назад

so does this mean we don't have to worry about getting any tickets?

@IronIsMyLife 12 лет назад

The only thing that concerns me about this, is what would that car do in a situation out of which there is no solution. Say a drunk driver swerves toward you, swerving away would cause you to hit another say parked car, but at least you would suffer less damage, would a human perform better in such cases than a computer?

@silentone15 12 лет назад

what about daydreaming or slow reaction to immediate unknown danger moments

@jonenat 12 лет назад

That's great, but what happens when the car gets short-circuited? (Perhaps by lightning?)

@Strictlypointless 12 лет назад

Absolutely brilliant.

@salutemeorsh00tme 12 лет назад

@subbuktek Uhh, no lol. The primary reason is fairly commonplace crashes that choke up a shoulder or more lanes of the highway. Another primary reason is that we're still using a traffic prediction system for our stoplights that's been unchanged since the '50s. Automated cars would sure help out with both reaction time and commonality of crashes, but reaction time is pretty minor in the scheme of things.

@Vleertouwer 12 лет назад

oh, only in the end I realized that the narrator explained everything happening because the video is made for blind people too

@ParanoidAndroid323 12 лет назад

That self driving car is impressive but WHERES MY HOVER BOARD?! :)

@monishpahuja 12 лет назад

thanks google i can get back home after getting drunk :)

@purplydreamz 12 лет назад

wow but how does the car avoid unforeseen circumstances? like a car that swerves into it from a neighboring lane.

@wramarante 12 лет назад

Show de bola. É bom ver a tecnologia sendo trabalhada em favor do bem da humanidade.

@brettgrimm719 11 лет назад

Google, I would like to say that you are helping the whole world with your technology. This is, well, impossible until now!

@TerrySimmonsMTL2267 12 лет назад

I guess I mean feasible in that everyone would want one or could afford one. Wonder how expensive they are to make? How reliable would they be (i.e. what if it malfunctions?) I think it's a great idea. I don't know how many times I have wished I could just flip a switch and put my car into autopilot! Especially on those long drives. :-)

@DeepMaster123123 12 лет назад

nice

@Zenolijo 12 лет назад

This has been possible for so long, good that someone makes it because it's frickin' awesome!

@WTEMedia 11 лет назад

why isnt this the 3rd gen prius?

@faiz434 12 лет назад

Wait, how do you see the commercial?

@timmacasaet 12 лет назад

the cars will have emotions. Then ultimately, take over the world. Thus, Pixar's Cars.

@HemantGiri 12 лет назад

really cool but will it work in india and china where roads and traffic is worst

@Altair565 12 лет назад

Quite the expert now are you? Remember to say hello to me if you pass by with your self-driving car...

@LMLukie 12 лет назад

How do you know what you are doing on the computer?

@tolkin7602 12 лет назад

with no money of course just human solidarity :) +1 vote

@jackknifejon 12 лет назад

My favorite part is when he quoted Wale.

@MsAussie83 Год назад

Wale? Who's Wale?

@AcerbusGaming 11 лет назад

I wounder how much this will cost

@pablo4 12 лет назад

If you drink and drive that car, does it still count at drunk driving

@meedowi 12 лет назад

They do have software that reads aloud text..

@TheMoose2010 12 лет назад

they would probably make new laws requiring you to have both hands on the wheel anyway, so they can still make money if you buy one of these. When they start being sold, that is.

@Andromedos 12 лет назад

Don't worry, you just have to wrap your car in a thiiiiiick layer of tinfoil, and you will be safe from the government-carjacking!

@semtex427 11 лет назад

I could just imagine someone cuts the car off then the car speeds up and crashes them. lol

@xiangyuli 12 лет назад

how did you watch this video?

@wizardfrag 11 лет назад

Is this audio described by Brent Spiner (Data from TNG)?

@C.BlackBeard 12 лет назад

amazing =/

@jamesdeleonhphs 12 лет назад

this is truly amazing. the potential is great for these people

@genovaz 12 лет назад

You mean they'll release an outdated version of google's car in white/light grey with no customization options and sell it at a 60% mark up while calling it cutting edge?