Here's Footage Of A Self-Driving Google Car Crashing Into A Bus
This isn’t the first time a Google self-driving car has been involved in a crash, but significantly it is the first time it has admitted fault. So far, it’s always been caused by a human driver crashing into the Google car, but as you can see here, this one comes down to the Google car misinterpreting the road.
You can read Google’s in-depth review of the incident on The Verge, but the general gist of it is that the Google car wanted to turn right, but found its path blocked by sandbags. It indicated left to drive around them, and thought the bus was slowing to let it out. It wasn’t, and the Google car found itself in the way. Fortunately nobody was hurt, but Google’s Lexus did suffer some minor damage to its front bumper.
This is proof that even a highly intelligent robot can’t predict other humans’ behaviour every single time, so teaching its cars to better interpret other road users will be key to Google creating autonomous cars that can co-exist with human drivers.
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This was bound to happen eventually, and considering how many miles these have logged it was probably safer than the average driver which doesn’t care about other drivers.
Was that a sandwich the bus driver had in his hand?
Honestly, i don’t like to fly.. this would be a nice thing to have on long trips where i don’t want to fly anywhere.. i could lay back, and let the car get me there.. I would be cool with this.. BUT.. I still want to be able to turn it off, and get some wheel time in going around winding roads, and driving on epic roads with amazing turns, views, etc.. Otherwise it will than just become nothing more than an appliance.. My real question is, what happens when it goes into an underground tunnel where the satellite is blocked?
Aahahaha, computers are better you say? Not always….
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Removed video…
I hear that it swerved to avoid some tax
For anyone after the video, here is the damage.
That car would have stopped in time if he was wearing a set of Nokian Tyres.
It’s removed. (oh boy)