Nevada has issued Google a license to check its driverless cars inside the state. The Las Vegas Sun reports Google, whose driverless cars have logged greater than 100,000 miles in neighboring California, would be capable of test its fleet of six Toyota Priuses, a Lexus RX 450h and an Audi TT in Nevada. But state regulators would require as a minimum two occupants within the car: someone behind the wheel and someone else within the front seat. That's the same as Google's procedure in California, where the corporate tested its driverless car - which uses video, radar and lasers to intuit its surroundings - with a trained individual within the driver's seat to override any errant moves. Only 1 mishap occurred - the driverless car was rear-ended at a stoplight.
In other news:
- To increase production capacity by 40,000 vehicles, Ford announced it is going to idle 13 facilities this summer, including six assembly plants, for only one week rather than the customary two.
- More evidence of Toyota's comeback: The Detroit News reports first-quarter profits hit $1.5 billion at current exchange rates, up 376% over 2011's earthquake-hobbled first quarter.
- As Subaru parent Fuji Heavy Industries shifts its growth focus from China to the U.S., this may increase capacity at its Indiana assembly plant nearly 20% by 2014, The Wall Street Journal reports.
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