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elsurudo on May 24, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google's Self-Driving Car Gets Mixed Reviews

The lack of "support" for turn signals is probably a way to ensure that a human is always present and aware during operation.

It's a really clever, simple solution. They've turned the absence of a feature into a feature.

I don't know why the Google engineer would lie about it, though.

epochwolf on May 24, 2012 [–]

Or it could just be that the turn signals aren't wired in to the computer system. On my vehicle, the wiring for the turn signals is pretty basic, there is no computer involved.

elsurudo on May 24, 2012 | [–]

Sure, but wiring something that simple up to their system should be very easy as well.

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