Google's Prius receives the first driving license for autonomous vehicles

Google’s Toyota Prius has advanced to a dizzying level in meeting every legal requirement needed to be allowed on the streets and roads of the USA. Recently, we told you about the first law in the state of Nevada that opened the door to this type of vehicle on the road, and now we learn that the car has been issued… the first driving license.

Yes, just as you read it. The modern times that Google has planned for the future envisage that licenses will be granted to cars, provided they have the technology to drive themselves. This is the first license of its kind in the world, and it will be issued to companies like Google that are conducting experiments in the field and possibly to the future owners of these vehicles.

Although I have some doubts that one day a car will take us to work by itself while we comfortably drink our breakfast coffee. As I believe I mentioned before, we always want total control over what we are controlling, and even more so when it comes to cars; other things are involved, not just going from point A to point B or being transported.

As a curiosity, the requirements for granting these new licenses demand that two people be in the car: one behind the wheel in case human intervention is required (and who of course must hold a driving license), while the other must watch the surrounding objects and vehicles. Perhaps in a few years these kinds of requirements will seem as ridiculous to us as those demanded in the early years of the motor vehicle: that someone with a flag walk ahead of the vehicle, and so on.