Tuesday, 12 January 2016
Between 2014 and November 2015 Google’s autonomous vehicles suffered 272 failures and would have crashed 13 times had a human driver not intervened, a new document reveals. In a report filed to the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), reports The Guardian, all companies obtaining a permit to test driverless cars on the state’s roads had to submit details of incidents a car suffered a “disengagement”. The definition includes any incident where a safety driver had to step in to correct the car. A total of 49 self-driving cars had been used over a 14-month period, which included Google’s aptly…
This story continues at The Next Web
