One of the driverless vehicles of the US multinational Google was first involved in a traffic accident in which there have been people who have suffered minor injuries, reported the company.
In a blog entry, the program director of Google car without a driver, Chris Urmson said that blame for the accident was the other vehicle, which Google says it has happened in all the accidents that their cars have been been involved.
According Urmson, a Lexus RX450h equipped with sensors that circulated Google Mountain View (California) stood at an intersection despite having the green light because the other side of the street cars They were standing, thus avoiding I get stopped in the middle of the intersection.
Then, a car coming from behind did not stop and crashed into the Lexus of Google at a speed of 27 kilometers per hour, causing damage to both vehicles and minor injuries on the neck of the three people traveling in the car of Google and the driver of the other vehicle.
The incident occurred during rush hour traffic by 1 July Urmson said.
This is the fourteenth accident over twenty Google driverless vehicles have suffered during the six years that the company has been testing them in California, but the first one in which someone injured.
The car you drive just Google is a project initiated in 2009 with an eye to the long term, but since then its two dozen Lexus RX450h equipped with sensors and have circulated-and therefore, recorded in 3D-maps up to 2.7 million kilometers, mainly on highways and roads.
Also, since about two years ago, Google cars have also been circulating through the streets of Mountain View, where the tech giant is headquartered.
If succeed, the proposed Google should find a fit in the current Highway Code, which in any case includes the possibility of vehicles running without driver.
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