That's what it says, yes.
Have such tests already begun the "the rest of the world"?
Have such tests already begun the "the rest of the world"?
In addition, I suspect that the cars will be 'self-driving' cars rather than 'driverless' (the distinction being that the former has a human behind the wheel, which can take the wheel at a moments notice).
As for the rest of the world, from the article:
The US States of California, Nevada and Florida have all approved tests of the vehicles. In California alone, Google's driverless car has done more than 300,000 miles on the open road.
In 2013, Nissan carried out Japan's first public road test of an autonomous vehicle on a highway.
And in Europe, the Swedish city of Gothenburg has given Volvo permission to test 100 driverless cars - although that trial is not scheduled to occur until 2017.Last time I went to California I saw one up close, that was pretty neat (though I don't know if it was driving itself at the time)!
http://www.wtsp.com/story/tech/2014/07/28/driverless-car-hit...
And I know they have been testing driverless farm machinery near where I live since the late 70's
It'd be like taking "FDA approves new drug for human testing" and making the headline "FDA to allow human use of new untested drug."
Both are technically true, but the latter makes it sound like a widespread thing being done regardless of poorly understood risks. And that's misleading, since it's being done in very limited scope to help us understand and reduce those risks.