Google's self-driving car accident, hit by human __ai

Author | Davidzh

local time in Friday afternoon, a car accident occurred in an unmanned vehicle of Waymo, a alphabet subsidiary of Google's parent company, on a highway in Arizona, State Chandler, USA.

This is another accident in the field of automatic driving after the Uber unmanned vehicle killed a pedestrian.

The local news station's live video shows that Waymo's self-driving car was moving normally at the time of the accident, and a passenger-gray sedan on the driveway was diverted from the direction of the car because of an emergency evasion of its right-hand vehicle. Because of the speed, the two cars ran straight into Waymo's self-driving car.

Waymo also soon released footage of the accident that had taken place in the car's camera.

From the point of view of responsibility, Waymo did not have to bear responsibility for the accident, but the other driver of the accident car was only slightly injured.

In February this year, Waymo claimed that Waymo's vehicles had accumulated 5 million miles on public roads since the automatic driving test was launched in 2009. California's DMV data showed that Waymo's self-driving car had experienced 30 minor collisions, only 1 of which had been initiated by the vehicle, but no one was injured.

In the case of Arizona, State, in 2016 alone, an average of 350 traffic accidents occurred daily, including 2 causing casualties. Magnified throughout the United States, about 40000 people die each year from traffic accidents, and about 90% of these accidents are caused by human pilots.

These figures have become one of the main arguments for self-driving technology companies to convince the public.

References: ABC15, Wired