California DMV Details Google Autonomous Car Accidents - Automobile
Google autonomous vehicles were stationary in three of five collisions involving driverless cars, as detailed in traffic accident reports released by the California Department of Motor Vehicles Friday. A sixth report that the California DMV released detailed a no-injury accident involving an autonomously equipped Audi SQ5 owned by supplier Delphi Automotive Systems. Google also has released information on its 12 driverless car accidents, all without injury, and having occurred during 1. 8-million miles of testing, 1. 1 million of them in autonomous mode. According to the accident report, the “Lexus AV was traveling northbound … when an Audi sedan traveling westbound … failed to come to a stop at the stop sign at the intersection. … The Audi rolled through the stop sign and struck the right rear quarter panel and right rear wheel of the Lexus AV. Prior to the collision, the Lexus AV’s autonomous technology began applying the brakes in response to its detection of the Audi’s... Just before the collision, the driver of the Lexus AV disengaged Autonomous Mode and took manual control of the vehicle in response to the application of the brakes by the Lexus AV’s autonomous technology. The Lexus “detected a vehicle approaching eastbound … and came to a stop in order to yield to the approaching vehicle. Source: www.automobilemag.com
