Google Self-Driving Car Project Considers Lane Splitting Motorcyclists

The November issue of Google’s Self-Driving Car Project Monthly Report was all about motorcyclists and how Google is tackling the difficult task of designing an autonomous vehicle that’s capable of safely sharing the road with smaller, lighter, faster accelerating and braking motorcycles. Lucky for us, a senior software engineer named Christian is involved with developing Google’s autonomous technology.

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Skidmarks - Squished?

It’s a cute, fuzzy lil’ harbinger of the end of Life as we Know it: the Google self-driving car. Seriously. Right now you may think of it as a curiosity, a gimmick, but it could alter the physical, economic and cultural landscape of America in a way we haven’t seen since … well … the invention of the car in the first place. But what will that do to poor little us on our motorcycles?

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What's Wrong With This Picture?

The ever-curious staff over at Google-Street-View.com discovered this graphic example of the perils of riding like an untrained adventurer in the urban jungle. Unfortunately for him, our hapless crash-test-dummy performs this graphic demonstration while riding almost completely unprotected. What can we learn?

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