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A Google self-driving car may have been at fault in an accident

MAR 01, 2016
Physics Today

MIT Technology Review : According to an accident report posted by California’s Department of Motor Vehicles, one of Google’s autonomous Lexus SUVs hit a bus in February. The collision occurred at very low speeds as the SUV tried to avoid sandbags on the road, and no one was hurt. The person on board the SUV believed the bus would yield and so did not take control of the vehicle. Google has had autonomous cars on public roads since 2009. The roughly 50 cars have been involved in about a dozen accidents, none of which have been the fault of the self-driving vehicle. If the SUV is found to be at fault, it would mark the first time a Google self-driving car caused an accident.

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