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Google's Self-Driving Car Crashes Into A Bus

One of Google’s self-driving car has recently crashed into an oncoming municipal bus in Mountain View, California.

The incident actually took place on 14th of February and said to be the first accident involving its self driving car.

The crash occurred when the self-driving car was moving in a lane near sand bags and steered its way into next lane and hit the bus, going at 15mph.

Google filed a report with California Department of Motor Vehicles, describing the crash as "The Google AV test driver saw the bus approaching in the left-side mirror but believed the bus would stop or slow to allow the Google AV to continue."

The car was going at 2mph and was left with body damage to the left front fender, left front wheel and driver's side sensor.

Google said in a statement: "We clearly bear some responsibility, because if our car hadn't moved there wouldn't have been a collision."

"That said, our test driver believed the bus was going to slow or stop to allow us to merge into the traffic, and that there would be sufficient space to do that."

The internet-search giant added that it has reviewed the incident and made refinement to the software.

"From now on, our cars will more deeply understand that buses (and other large vehicles) are less likely to yield to us than other types of vehicles, and we hope to handle situations like this more gracefully in the future."

No police charges have been filed in this case.

This incident has occurred at a time when government authorities asked self-driving car makers to put steering wheel, pedals and brakes in their vehicles as a licensed human driver could take over at any time.

Following which, Google criticized government authorities about this decision. Google argued that in the 6 years of self-driving cars and with over two million miles to credit, there have only been just 17 accidents.

Source: http://automobiletechnology.automotive-business-review.com/news/googles-self-driving-car-crashes-into-a-bus-010316-4826200
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