11 accidents involving cars without driver – Computerworld

Such information gave recently Chris Urmson, standing at Google on the front of the unit working on the self-propelled cars. He also said that after the introduction of self-propelled vehicles newest solutions, they are able to control the entire environment within a radius of 360 degrees and “see” any vehicle, pedestrian or a biker from a distance equal to two football fields.

Google tested in Between 2010 and 2015 more than 20 self-propelled cars, which defeated at that time almost 2.5 million kilometers and involved in 11 cases. They were in most cases so. bumps and what is important is not the Google cars were guilty, but others involved traffic.

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Chris Urmson placed on the web Your post after this when the Associated Press reported that propelled Google cars participated from September last year in the three accidents. He wrote that the car testing has allowed the company to observe how irresponsible drivers contribute to their formation. With this data for Google to enter the car solutions that the number of such accidents can be significantly reduced.

It turns out that many accidents happen at intersections, which rode the driver after the ignition of the red świetłw. That’s why Google launched the car software patch that causes they do not enter the intersection immediately after you see the green light, but after a short delay.

Google stresses that the car control software, collecting data from multiple cameras mounted thereon and sensors can make a decision much quicker than operating always with a certain delay the driver. For recorded 11 cases in 7 cases, the Google cars were struck by other vehicles behind and to events such occurred both at intersections marked with lights, as well as on highways.

There have been a few cases in which Google cars were struck from the side, mostly by cars whose drivers ignored a stop sign. Urmson gives the post a few cases where the Google cars have reacted so quickly and effectively that after the commission by drivers of other vehicles manifest error, the accident did not happen. Eg. When the driver veered to the right of the belt, which could turn only to the left. If it were not fast response car Google, accidents such in normal road traffic would not have been nearly a hundred percent avoidable.