Google Self-Driving auto Involved In First Injury Accident

The most recent incident happened on July 1, when a driver rear-ended one of Google’s cars at stop light.

Vid A Google robocar has been involved in a collision in which its cargo of inert people were injured – but the machine’s masters at the mighty ad firm insist that this was the fault of the merely-human driver of the other vehicle.

Google cars have been the victims of fourteen small accidents since they initially deployed in 2009.

Skeptics, who include leaders of auto companies focused more on driver-assist technology, argue that fully autonomous cars come with regulatory, insurance and hacking liabilities. There were three Google employees on board at the time of the incident, and complained of minor whiplash. The Google employees were checked out at a nearby hospital and cleared to go back to work. A self-driving vehicle has to be safer than half the idiots on the I-5 on any given day.

Our self-driving cars can pay attention to hundreds of objects at once, 360 degrees in all directions, and they never get exhausted, irritable or distracted. This is to take control in case of an emergency.

In a blog post Thursday, the head of Google’s self-driving program Chris Urmson said that the Google SUVs “are being hit surprisingly often”.

Urmson said that such crashes are “a big motivator” in that they illuminate pervasive human fallibility and distractedness on the road.

Google’s fleet of self-driving cars have driven over 1.8 million miles, including while being manually controlled, and has been involved in just 14 minor accidents. One of our Lexus vehicles was driving autonomously towards an intersection in Mountain View, California. He believes it is due to drivers being distracted by their mobile phones.

Urmson discharged a video demonstrating how the accident appeared to the vehicle, which utilizes various sensors to translate the earth around it.

That distinction is significant because the California Vehicle Code requires police to write up a crash report for injury collisions. Until recently, Google had not made its accident record public, but in May, the company announced it would conduct monthly reporting.