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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Video removed by user… more like video removed by google.
for anyone curious: watch?v=eTLMGjp-AIQ
‘Minor damage to the front bumper.’ Yeah right.
The bus did slow down then suddenly accelerated what else did you expect
So happy this happens at least we still vet to drive instead if machine driving us
Bus driver should have given him a way
Is the driver eating a cheeseburger?
I thought my computer was being slow as hell when that video was running xD
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Seeing people commenting about how it good it has crashed so self driving cars will take longer to come around. Damn that is a pretty silly stance to take. I am guessing you guys know the feeling of having bad drivers pull out on you? Drive to slowly? Those are the people who will use them, by all means complain and then ramble incoherently about how “hur dur no computers hurr” but just know the world will leave you behind. Personally I would love a car that is both self driving and manual, no-one enjoys motorway driving, but the back Roads? Manual all the way.
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