Google's automatic driving car turned out to have encountered 11 accidents in 6 years

ByBecky Stern

Automatic driving car, which Google is developing,Practical level automatic traveling already possible even in urban areas with complicated traffic conditionsAnd it is actuallyTest userIt is finished in the level that comes out with the impression that "I forgot that the car is moving without permission". However, it is clear that such an automated driving car of Google has caused 11 small accidents in total for 6 years from the start of development to 2015.

Google acknowledges 11 accidents with its self-driving cars
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Google's automated driving car development project began in 2009, and Chris Urmson who led the project to clarify what we have encountered 11 accidents ever made it clear. All accidents are of small scale and "injured people are zero". In addition, the total mileage of Google's automatic driving car reaches 1.7 million miles (about 2.7 million km), but the distance traveled in the automatic driving mode was one million miles (1.6 million km) I will.

Furthermore, in September 2014, the California State Vehicle Administration Bureau (DMV) issued a bill for permission to drive public roads of automatic driving carsEffectivenessAfter going into Google, the automatic driving car of Google has been carrying out the test running on California's public road, but it is also obvious that 3 accidents have already occurred between September 2014 and May 2015 became.

ByWouter van Erve

However, according to Urmson, "Google's automatic driving car has never caused accidents even once".

For example, it happened in OctoberDelphi CorporationA collision accident caused by an automatic driving car made by Google and an automatic driving car of Google was said to be "Google (Google side)" accident without fault ". About this accident Delphi reports a report detailing the accidentAP communicationHowever, we do not disclose detailed records at all. This is because Google did not disclose the details of the accident because "Part of the public becomes public in an incomplete state before publishing new technology if disclosure of details of the accident", DMV I am talking.

According to the report of the accident Delphi presented to the Associated Press, Google's automatic driving car thrusts where the Delphi automatic driving car stopped at the intersection due to a left turn and the front side face was damaged. about. At this time, "Delphi's automatic driving car was not an automatic driving mode," said the company's spokesperson Kristin Kinley.

ByTravis Wise

There are five manufacturers of automatic driving cars that are permitted to run on public roads as of May 2015, with the exception of Google and Delphi, and 48 automated driving cars are running on public roads in total. However, it seems that reports of accidents caused by automatic driving cars that five companies other than Google and Delphi develop are not reported so far.

ByDon Hankins

Four reports have been submitted to accident by automatic driving car submitted to regulatory authority in California so far, but details of these reports are not disclosed. However, according to someone familiar with these information, two of the four accidents occurred in the automatic driving mode, the other two occurred while the driver was driving It is said that. Moreover, which accident happened when the car was traveling at 10 mph (about 16 km / h) or less, there seemed to be no injured person.

National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationAccording to the information released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (Bureau of Road Traffic Safety), accidents involving injuries only due to damage between cars are about 0.3 cases (about 160,000 km) running on a nationwide average of 100,000 miles It is said that it is occurring. Calculating based on 11 accidents, which is 1.7 million miles, which is said to be the total distance of test driving by Google's automatic driving car, Google's automatic driving car is calculated to generate 0.6 accidents at 100 thousand miles I will excuse you.

ByJasonParis

Although the incidence of accidents is higher than the number of people's hands alone, it is likely that many small crash accidents that actually can not be delivered to the police should have occurred so that only Google's It is a difficult part to judge the accuracy of an automated driving car, says the Associated Press.