California's Department of Motor Vehicles recently ruledthat autonomous vehicles would require manual controls if they were to be tested on its roads, putting another obstacle on Google's radar.
But Mountain View has just provided an update on its driverless car project, and apparently it always knew that California law would required test vehicles to have a manual fallback option.
Google says it "had a plan ready", and that plan was to fit a temporary steering wheel to its cars. That obviously contradicts Google's master plan for a totally autonomous vehicle, but after testing it should be able to ditch the wheel - or at least that's the hope.
No delays ahead
Source:
http://www.techradar.com/news/car-tech/google-s-driverless-car-avoids-bump-in-the-road-with-temporary-steering-wheel-1265737
