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Google's Self-Driving Car Crashes

First Posted: 08/06/11 10:41 AM ET Updated: 10/05/11 06:12 AM ET

Google Car Crash
The view from inside Google's self-driving car in Mountain View, CA.

Jalopnik:

This photo of what looks like a minor case of Prius-on-Prius vehicular violence may actually be a piece of automotive history: the first accident caused by Google's self-driving car. Whose name should the cop write down on the ticket?

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This photo of what looks like a minor case of Prius-on-Prius vehicular violence may actually be a piece of automotive history: the first accident caused by Google's self-driving car. Whose name should...
This photo of what looks like a minor case of Prius-on-Prius vehicular violence may actually be a piece of automotive history: the first accident caused by Google's self-driving car. Whose name should...
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European1919
I am the PigmⒶn
08:55 AM on 08/08/2011
Hahahah ... stick to stuff you know about like android OS and spying on people.
01:17 AM on 08/08/2011
Even if the car wasn't actually driven by a human at the time, this is a totally non-story. The headline, translated into "actual fact" speech would read, "New technology being developed sometimes does not work perfectly." DUH!
10:22 PM on 08/07/2011
The car involved was distracted by auto-dialing home to start cooking dinner on the smart stove and by checking itself out as reflected in a shop window.
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durant
Editor & publisher of Europeforvisitors.com
09:32 PM on 08/07/2011
Sounds like a non-story, since the car was being driven by a human at the time.
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Shain Eighmey
Microbiologist
03:11 PM on 08/07/2011
Wait, so a human was driving the car when it crashed? Looks like that is what happens when you send a human to do a machine's job.
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PlayTOE
Morals evolved due to cooperative group living
07:26 AM on 08/07/2011
#1 ) An automatic robot driving car can have a license and insurance just like a human driver. We don't pay for the cost of accidents, an insurance company does. The question of who pays is a bit of misdirection. Obviously the car owner will pay for the insurance and should not be able to operate the car without it.

#2 ) An automatic robot driving car is more alert than a human driver, and should be able to be made safer and therefore have a lower insurance rate than a human driver.

#3 ) The accident report shows that the car was being operated by a human driver and with the automatic robot driver turned off at the time of the crash. Clearly the human driver was at fault. However, it also indicates that the crash avoidance system should have a non-override mode which should be quite difficult to turn off.

I still have full confidence in these robot drivers, they have had less accidents per mile driven than most drivers on the roads.
08:19 AM on 08/07/2011
Even though the the technology has some distance to go yet, it is true rhat a car driven by a robot will probably be superior to one driven by a human for the simple fact that it would be devoid of humanly distractions.
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02:34 AM on 08/07/2011
How many empty beer cans were on the floor of the back seat?
02:28 AM on 08/07/2011
Then the Win7 phone ads always showed an older neanderthal looking guy sadly sitting there jabbing his finger at his phone oblivious to the world around him. http://bit.ly/r6tQNI
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WheelsOnFire
Fiercely Independent
01:56 AM on 08/07/2011
"Recalculating..."
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Mark 13:13
07:05 PM on 08/07/2011
Nope. It was a person driving.
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Brent Rossen
Is our children learning?
01:32 AM on 08/07/2011
This reminds me of a dream I had where I was trapped in the backseat of a car that had a stuck accelerator.
12:55 AM on 08/07/2011
Are you effing kidding me? Remote controlled cars on our roads? No. Too dangerous. Stop it Goggle!
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LeFlaneur
does nuance.
01:53 AM on 08/07/2011
Can't be more dangerous than my mother.
02:58 AM on 08/07/2011
oops...
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blizzard man robot voice
Mark 13:13
07:05 PM on 08/07/2011
Yeah Goggle! Google, please keep advancing our civilization.
07:33 PM on 08/07/2011
Google can afford to hire drivers..with goggles!
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12:00 AM on 08/07/2011
How much to insure that toy?
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Craig 212
Tide goes in, tide goes out.
11:23 PM on 08/06/2011
["Already some of the more forward-thinking technologists have questioned whether autonomous vehicles should be smart enough to sacrifice its own passengers to save other people in an imminent crash."]

Why aren't more people focusing on this sentence?
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Mark 13:13
07:06 PM on 08/07/2011
It was human driven when it crashed.
10:17 PM on 08/06/2011
Thanks to google and others for taking the initiative.
08:31 PM on 08/06/2011
Wait'll that Prius learns to text.