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Renault Motors announces its arrival in India with the saloon model Fluence. Renault Fluence will be priced at Rs. 12-14 lakh and the car will compete with Toyota Corolla, Hyundai Elantra and Chevrolet Cruze. In addition to the much awaited Fluence, Renault Dacia Duster based on Logan platform will be one of the other launches.





Renault Motors was previously associated with Mahindra and Mahindra. Following the failure of its entry level model Logan, Renault wishes to enter the Indian market independently. Renault introduced many of its models at the Delhi Auto Show 2010. The models exhibited include Renault Megane, Fluence, Koleos, Laguna and the electric car model Twizzy.

Besides the swanky cars, Renault will bring the much in news model Koleos in India. The SUV will be assembled at Renault’s plant near Chennai. Koleos will be imported as a CKD model along with Fluence, in a bid to maintain competitive pricing in the Indian market.

Google has built cars robots that can run itself, and use more Google applications like Google Maps, etc to "see" how to drive. Although there were people from traveling, to make sure everything went well, Googles new car managed to drive himself around the state of California that is curved down Lombard Street San Francisco, the Pacific Coast Highway, and Mountain View headquarters of Google all the way to Santa Monica, 350 miles. The cars have logged 140,000 miles.

"Our cars are using automatic video cameras, radar sensors and a laser rangefinder to" see "the traffic of others, as well as detailed maps (which collect vehicle with the engine flywheel) to navigate the road. This is possible thanks to the Google data centers that can process vast amounts of information collected by our vehicles to make a map of their land" says Google.

"Safety has been our first priority in this project. Our cars are never unmanned. We always have a trained safety driver behind the wheel who can take over as easily as one disengages cruise control. And we also have a trained software operator in the passenger seat to monitor the software. Any test begins by sending out a driver in a conventionally driven car to map the route and road conditions. By mapping features like lane markers and traffic signs, the software in the car becomes familiar with the environment and its characteristics in advance. And we’ve briefed local police on our work," Google says.

Stakes are huge
The stakes for the human race are huge. More than 1.2 million people die in road traffic accidents every year, according to the World Health Organization; Google thinks it can cut that number by up to half, as self-driving cars become more reliable than autos with flesh-and-blood people at the wheel. Google says self-driving cars will "transform car sharing, significantly reducing car usage" (Im not sure how that would work. If cars are easier, more convenient, and safer to use, wouldnt that make people drive more?).