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Google's Self-Driving Cars: 300,000 Miles Logged, Not a Single Accident
An anonymous reader writes "The automated cars are slowly building a driving record that's better than that of your average American. From the article: 'Ever since Google began designing its self-driving cars, they've wanted to build cars that go beyond the capabilities of human-piloted vehicles, cars that are much, much safer. When Sebastian Thrun announced the project in 2010, he wrote, "According to the World Health Organization, more than 1.2 million lives are lost every year in road traffic accidents. We believe our technology has the potential to cut that number, perhaps by as much as half."
New data indicate that Google's on the right path. Earlier this week the company announced that the self-driving cars have now logged some 300,000 miles and "there hasn't been a single accident under computer control." (The New York Times did note in a 2010 article that a self-driving car was rear-ended while stopped at a traffic light, so Google must not be counting the incidents that were the fault of flawed humans.)'"
The GoogleMobile was behaving properly, and was stopped. It had no possible way to evade the puny human that hit it.
However, after the accident, the GoogleMobile was heard asking another car, "Hey, hot mama, wanna kill all humans?"
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
It's hard to imagine being found at-fault when you are stopped and rear-ended.
Especially when the self-driving car has full video, lidar, and radar coverage of the entire event. And really good lawyers.