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posted by LaminatorX on Monday May 11 2015, @06:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the better-mousetrap dept.

According to an article by the AP - via an ad-free site several of the self driving cars licensed to drive in California have been involved in accidents.

Most are slow speed accidents, apparently with no injuries.

Four of the nearly 50 self-driving cars now rolling around California have gotten into accidents since September, when the state began issuing permits for companies to test them on public roads. Two accidents happened while the cars were in control; in the other two, the person who still must be behind the wheel was driving, a person familiar with the accident reports told The Associated Press.

Three involved Lexus SUVs that Google Inc. outfitted with sensors and computing power in its aggressive effort to develop "autonomous driving," a goal the tech giant shares with traditional automakers. The parts supplier Delphi Automotive had the other accident with one of its two test vehicles. Google and Delphi said their cars were not at fault in any accidents, which the companies said were minor.

Neither the companies involved, nor the State of California will release details of these accidents, which rankles some critics.

Four accidents involving these 50 cars in 8 months may seem a little high. Google's 23 cars have driven 140,000 miles in that time and racked up 3 accidents all by them selves. That is an order of magnitude higher than the National Transportation Safety Board's figures of 0.3 per 100,000 for non injury accidents. However the NTSB doesn't collect all fender bender accidents.

The article says that none of the other states that permit self driving cars have any record of accidents.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday May 12 2015, @04:19PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday May 12 2015, @04:19PM (#181984) Journal

    I didn't submit this story, but I submit others. This is a community site, as in the value is the community and that community only has as much value as we put into it. So if you or anyone else has better submissions, please submit them.

    In practice sending in a submission takes about 10-15 minutes per if you make sure that the links are good, that you pull out representative sections from the article for the summary, and that you top that off with a title and line at the end with a conversation starter that aren't too salacious. Reading deep background on a subject and sifting out elements that might be spin would increase that submission prep to a half an hour per at least. Even if a person had that kind of free time, it would still probably be futile because no matter how careful you are there will always be someone who comes along and yells "bias!"

    That's why we have discussion, so that subject matter experts or those with inside knowledge can chime in and enlighten the rest of us. That's also more than you'll get from any "legit" media source out there, because there's always an editorial agenda or agenda from the publisher and you never get to talk back or push back on any of them. As in, when's the last time Bill O'Reilly bothered to have a discussion with average viewers who take issue with his "reporting?"

    For what it's worth, I frequently see posts on SN whose language does not agree with my worldview, but them's the breaks. It's a big world with lots of viewpoints in it.

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