By Ishbel Macleod

Google has been forced to add a steering wheel to its driverless cars so that a human can take over in case of a software hiccup.

Coming days after the lead software engineer Dmitri Dolgov admitted that the cars would “sometimes” exceed the speed limit, California’s Department of Motor Vehicles ruled that humans need to be able to take over physical control of the car in case of an accident or emergency.

Dolgov said that the cars were allowed to break the speed limit by up to 10mph as it would be safer to keep up with traffic when it was Read full story ›

Source: The Drum