In response to reports that their self-driving cars have not been totally free from accidents, Google has created a webpage where it will publish monthly reports detailing all of the accidents that its self-driving cars are involved in.
The first report [PDF] includes summaries of all accidents since the start of the Google X project in 2009:
The report for May showed Google cars had been involved in 12 accidents since it first began testing its self-driving cars in 2009, mostly involving rear-ending. Google said one of its vehicles was rear-ended at a stoplight in California on Thursday, bringing the total count to 13 accidents.
"That could mean that the vehicles tend to stop more quickly than human drivers expect," public interest group Consumer Watchdog said. The group called for more details on the accidents, including statements from witnesses and other drivers.
None of these accidents were caused by a fault with the car, Google said.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2015, @05:44AM
The problem is the transition period, like it was suggested by some prankster that the UK should switch to right side traffic like the rest of the world but could do so with a transition period where only heavy traffic would switch the first week...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2015, @05:47AM
Let's SWITCH self driving CARS to IPv6!
(Score: 4, Funny) by c0lo on Monday June 08 2015, @09:26AM
Mate, hand over the geek card!
IPv6 is at the network level, switching occurs at OSI level 2 (Data link - MAC based). The correct proposal would be
(ducks)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford