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Reported at IEEE Spectrum is the news that Holland has just allowed self driving cars onto the roads, although only approved cars as part of test programs:
As the government's announcement makes plain, only manufacturers, universities and other recognized research outfits will be allowed to play, and then only if they've already tested their vehicles under controlled conditions. There's a lot of paperwork to fill out, and as the announcement notes, "Please expect an average 3-to-6-month-turn-around time from sending in your application to executing the test."
The government announcement is available here.
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Holland to Open Roads to (some) Experimental Self Driving Robots
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Remember Darwin; building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
(Score: 2) by FakeBeldin on Thursday July 02 2015, @05:23PM
True enough - and apologies if my tone was a bit grumpy.
On a side note: my English pronunciation and a taxi driver's English comprehension once collaborated to work out that I was from Poland. Had to correct him thrice before it sank in - and I used the phrase "Holland" exactly as parent explained: when the term "Netherlands" was not understood.
But I was amazed when my on-the-spot invented spanishfication of the french term, "paios bajos", actually is close [wikipedia.org].