Google’s self-driving car Crashes into a Bus
United Sates: Google’s self-driving cars
had been into minor accidents at several times before, though, none of them was
caused due to the fault of tech giant’s autonomous vehicle. However, a reported
accident on 29th February 2016, was caused by a Google’s
self-driving Lexus RX450h (SUV), which was running on a speed of less than 2
miles per hour. The car side struck a city municipal bus in Mountain View,
California, as per the reports.
As
per Google, the accident took place while the car was about to take right turn
to enter into center lane, to skip sand bags in front of it. While the projected
movement of public bus which was witnessed to be running in the center lane was
miss calculated by Google’s autonomous car leading to this accident. The crash
damaged the left front fender, front wheel and a driver side sensor of the car.
Fortunately, no one was injured in the autonomous car as well as in the bus.
Google
while bearing some of the responsibility of the accident claimed that if our
car wouldn’t have moved, a collision with the bus could have been avoided. Somehow,
the test driver of car believed that the bus would slowdown or stop, to allow the
car to merge into the traffic.
According
to Google, in a time span of six years of its self-driving car tests, there
have been reportedly 17 minor accidents, none of which was caused by the
self-driving car and the California state government should not criticize the
project by proposing regulations for autonomous cars.
The
recent report published by TechSci
Research, “Global Autonomous Car Technology Market Forecast and Opportunities,
2035 – ADAS, Semi-Autonomous, Fully-Autonomous” represents the evolving
technology in the automotive sector around the world. One of the biggest global
IT company, Google, have been the prominent leader in testing the autonomous
technology in its vehicles since last six years. The inclination towards
greater automation is expected to bring a dramatic growth in the autonomous
vehicle market at a global level. However, the recent accident caused by the
Google autonomous car in California has led the company to further work upon
its autonomous technology for vehicles.
As
per TechSci Research, the recently caused accident by the Google autonomous car
has led the global players of autonomous vehicle market to rethink upon its
driverless car technology. Taken into consideration the recent crash by the
car, the companies around the globe is expected to further increase their
spending on R&D for the improvement in the autonomous car technology.