This is the first time the company admits responsibility system and the driver in charge of the car, with the permission of the authorities to perform various tests on the urban layout
An autonomous vehicle Google had a slight contact with a public bus on Valentine’s Day in California, while on a tour of evidence . This minor collision appears to be the first time that such a prototype causes an accident on a city street.
Google accepted some responsibility for the incident, the Lexus SUV, despite being equipped with cameras and sensors, collided with the side of the bus. No one was injured, according to the report filed by Google with the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) state.
Google wrote that his car trying to evade sandbags at an intersection near its corporate headquarters in Mountain View, California, when the left front hit the right side of the bus. The Google car was turning left to avoid the sandbags that were on his right, and to turn right. It was about 2 miles per hour, about 3.2 kilometers per hour while the bus was 24 kilometers per hour.
The driver-escort car, which according to state laws must be in the seat front of the vehicle and has to take control if necessary, he thought the bus was going to give in when the crash occurred, according to the report.
Although Google did not cast the blame on anyone, issued a statement claiming that “clearly some of the responsibility lies with us because if our car had not moved, the shock would not have happened”.
the statement called the incident “a typical example of the complexity of driving example, we all trying to guess the movement of the other vehicle. “
the Transportation Agency of Santa Clara Valley declared that none of the 15 passengers on the bus was hurt, nor his driver either. The bus sustained minor damage.
“It is developing an internal investigation, there are several elements that have not been clarified, so we have not yet mentioned responsibilities,” said spokeswoman Stacey Hendler Ross said in a statement.
it is possible that a statement unequivocally guilty never issues, especially if the damage was insignificant and if neither party sues. Even so, it is likely that the incident of February 14 has been the first time that an autonomous vehicle Google has caused an accident.
The Google cars have been involved in nearly a dozen collisions in Mountain View and its surroundings since they began to be tested on the streets of the city at the beginning of 2015. in most cases, were the company vehicles which were wrecked by others. No one has been hurt consideration.
A spokesman for the California transportation agency said the agency will hold talks with Google to find out more about what happened. Under state law, Google must preserve the data collected before any accident.
“I do not think that there will be conflicting versions because the data is there,” said Robert W. Peterson, expert on insurers at the University of Santa Clara, which has assessed the autonomous vehicles.
Associated Press
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