Due to a Jalopnik reader’s quick reflexes with a mobile phone camera earlier this week, one of Google’s self-driving Prius automobiles got caught rear-ending another Prius. This caused a chain-reaction that resulted in two Honda Accords and a second Toyota Prius to be rear ended. However, Google claims that the manual driving mode was enabled and a human driver is to blame for the accident. Legally, the cars must have a human behind the wheel at all times to take control of the vehicle in case of failure by the self-driving mechanism. According to Google, the cars have logged over 160,000 miles without incident when driving in the automatic mode. The launch of Google’s self-driving cars came late last year. Google equipped an Audi TT and six Toyota Prius cars with a large rotating sensor mounted to the top of the vehicle. The sensor builds a constantly changing three-dimensional map of the surroundings and relies on a video camera to watch for roving pedestrians, bicycles zipping by and the different colors in a stop light. At launch, Google stressed the superiority of the navigation data compared to the narrow view of a human driver as well as the tendency of a human driver to become distracted behind… Read full this story
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