If this fucking thing crashed into my car, I’d take a crowbar to it and destroy it, from soup to nuts.
The car, a Lexus sports utility vehicle, hit the left side of a public transit bus as it was attempting to avoid some sand bags on a road in Mountain View, California. The automobile had a test driver, who saw the bus approaching in the mirror but “believed the bus would stop or slow to allow the Google AV to continue,” according to an accident report filed with the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles.
Google is betting that its efforts will lead to a future when a large number of cars on the road will drive themselves, and has been testing autonomous vehicles on streets near its headquarters for the past few years. The company acknowledged that the technology still needs work. The incident with the bus happened because the car’s software also predicted the bus behind it would yield so it could merge back into traffic.
“We can imagine the bus driver assumed we were going to stay put,” Google wrote in its February monthly report on self-driving cars, which Bloomberg obtained. “Unfortunately, all these assumptions led us to the same spot in the lane at the same time. This type of misunderstanding happens between human drivers on the road every day.”
I can’t wait for these things to start littering the rush hour lanes.
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I hate the self driving car investor fad…
Elon Musk squared and then cubed the idiocy and have people excited for this mythical “Hyper-loop”
Can we simply just legislate that once you hit 60 years old you’re required to take annual driving exams?
they’re going to be made by 3d printers
Where is that smart car? This was a dumb car.
Computers are smarter than humans in some ways, but dumber than others. In driving, so far, that self-driving car sure is dumber than humans. Any human except the one they put in that care, would know that public transit buses do not yield to cars. Cars yield to transit buses. They should use a human who has driven his own car before, rather than one who takes the Google company bus to work every day while surfing the net on his phone.
I believe the car crashed into the bus going an unbelievable 2 mph. The bus 15 mph. Not mentioned was that the bus driver was 79 years old and rage texting off some bullshit Facebook photo from over the weekend.