How often the crash self-propelled cars? [updated]

Posted on 11-05-2015 at 20:46 by ricardo – 19 Comments”

Nerd herd
Not so often, but it happens.

While in the Netherlands on the A270 small-scale is tested with self-propelled cars to drive in California for 48 cars around, which without human input by the traffic can go. The future, says Elon, Google, Uber, and almost the entire automotive industry. But also the autonomous automobile will not always get off scot free.

4 accidents

News agency AP has numbers in the hands of the number of accidents with these bestuurdersloze brikjes. Of the 48 cars are there 4 been involved in an accident. Three cars were from Google (Lexus RX 450h), one of onderdelengigant Delphi Automotive. ‘YOU SEE!1’, is what we are the Skynet-fearing mob all shouting, but it seems to fall. Of severe crashes would not occur.

‘Not the fault of computers”

Of the four crashed cars, there would be but two of the computers are controlled at the moment of impact, and furthermore, the speed below 16 km/h. When the other two bangers there were human hands on the steering wheel. There also seem to be no injuries to his cases, it remained to scuffs. Google has the crashes, compared to AP confirmed, but says immediately that it is by “human failure or inattention”. So either the drivers made mistakes, or are hit by others in the traffic.

So yes, autonomous cars are sometimes in collision, but by the fault of want to become an ineffectual directors of flesh and blood. Now it is just waiting for the first crash between two autonomen.

Update: according to experts the number of collisions is greater than reported. A researcher responds to the previous notice: the above 4 crashes since september 2014, about the entire process is even talk of 11 accidents.

Update June 4, 2015
Yesterday gave Google even a collision, bringing the total so twelve apostles would be. Sergey Brin said that the accident last week. The self-propelled car stopped for a traffic light when the vehicle behind was hit. The debt seems, therefore, not in the autonomous car.